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[Nan]

#50 Merged the author profiles under the name Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma and combined the two editions of Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation together

[Bryn]

Can we put this guy together?

Richard Foltz
Richard C. Foltz

Although he uses each of these names on different books, every book under these authors is by him. One or two are entered under both author names.

[Abcdarian]

#52 Authors merged; books combined.

[Bryn]

The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368

This entry has no details. Can we add a book description -- the following copied from the publisher site (http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9362-...)

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The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China's Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the spectacular but relatively short-lived regime founded by Khubilai Khan, regarded as the pre-eminent khanate of the Mongol empire.

This book illuminates the Yuan era – full of conflicts and complex interactions between Mongol power and Chinese heritage – by delving into the visual history of its culture, considering how Mongol governance and values imposed a new order on China's culture and how a sedentary, agrarian China posed specific challenges to the Mongols' militarist and nomadic lifestyle.

Shane McCausland explores how an unusual range of expectations and pressures were placed on Yuan culture: the idea that visual culture could create cohesion across a diverse yet hierarchical society, while balancing Mongol desires for novelty and display with Chinese concerns about posterity.

Although in recent years exhibitions have begun to open up the inherent paradoxes of Yuan culture, this is the first book in English to adopt a comprehensive approach. It incorporates a broad range of visual media of the East Asia region to reconsider the impact Mongol culture had in China, from urban architecture and design to tomb murals and porcelain, and from calligraphy and printed paper money to stone sculpture. Fresh and invigorating, The Mongol Century explores, in fascinating detail, the visual culture of this brief but captivating era of East Asian history.

162 illustrations, 141 in color

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The publisher's site has an image too, but the image at Amazon, if we can use that, seems better quality:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I...

thank you!

[Philip]

#54 - Working on Done

Used the publisher cover, because the Amazon cover was significantly differnt, and had a different ISBN attached to it.

[Bryn]

Can we merge these?

Beltran in Exile
and
The Last Of The Templars

It has been published under these two titles. Nb. not 'The Last Templar' -- which is the name of a different book and causes confusion. So the 'aka The Last Templar' that we have attached to the title 'Beltran in Exile' is itself misleading.

The authors are separated too. He is William Watson; this is the right bio.

I own the paperback with this title, which I think is most extant:

[Sandra]

#56 done

[Abcdarian]

#56: Done by someone. Added covers & corrected description.

[Sandra]

Sorry, I went off chasing a bunch of William Watsons. :)

[Abcdarian]

Me too Sandra; there were lots to go around. :-)

[Bryn]

Mongols in Western/American Consciousness

Can we add a book description for this one? From the publisher's site:


Examines the influence of medieval conceptions of the Mongols as monsters, how these impressions affected the creation of a 'Mongol' racial category for mankind, what travelers observed and reported while in Mongol domains, the realm of fiction and film, and the field of Mongolian Studies.

“. . . a splendid contribution to our understanding of the uses and misuses of the notion of ‘Mongol’ in the West and American in particular. With wit, humor, and sarcasm Kevin Stuart traces the origin of the notions ‘Mongol’ and ‘Mongoloid’ as terms used to designate the racial type of Asians by European and American scientists. . . Stuart’s most telling criticism, however, is directed not at journalists or travelers but at the doyens of Mongolian studies in the US. . . . Nor did some of the handful of surviving Mongolist pundits and prominent members of the Mongolia Society fare any better under Stuart’s close scrutiny of their representations of the Mongols. . . . The parochialism of American Mongolian studies is contrasted with broader and more diverse approaches taken by British and Japanese Mongol specialists.” – Mongolian Studies

https://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.c...

thanks librarians

[Sandra]

#61 done

[Bryn]

A request to expand the description for this book. Thank you as always.

Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman

Description (from the publisher site: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/bo...)

Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also a trained ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folklore of Old Russia. In this work, Peg Weiss provides an interpretation of Kandinsky's art by examining how this commitment to his ethnic Russian heritage influenced the painter's work throughout his career. Weiss describes Kandinsky's university training in ethnography, his expedition to Russia's Vologda province in 1889, his involvement as a student with the country's most influential ethnographic group - the Imperial Society of Friends of the Natural Sciences, Anthropology, and Ethnography - and the literature he read while writing reviews for the society's journal, "Ethnographic Review". Weiss shows that Kandinsky's knowledge of Finno-Ugric, Lapp and Siberian shamanism and folklore provided him with an indelible palette of iconographic references that resonated in his work - from his earliest paintings to his last. Identifying specific ethnographic and folkloristic motifs in his iconography, Weiss argues that despite numerous stylistic changes, Kandinsky's paintings consistently reflected an underlying message: his belief in the shamanist calling of the artist to provide a means of cultural healing and regeneration.

[Sandra]

#63 done

[Bryn]

Can we add this book (whose author name is scrambled) to the author's works?

book exists in two separate entries for hardback and ebook:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

This is the correct author:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

thank you!

[Abcdarian]

#65: Author profiles merged & editions combined.

[Bryn]

Hello,

Can we fix the title for this book?
Returning to Reims (Semiotext

I have the paperback (the above edition), and see that the stuff in brackets -- (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) -- is the publisher's series, but in no way part of the title, and not present on the front cover or the title page. It's off-putting for a novel. Can we remove it?

thank you very much

[Abcdarian]

#67: Done.

[Lobstergirl]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Super needed to add "this review is from author" label.

[Renske]

69 Super-librarians can't do anything about that. We have no ways to do anything with other people's reviews, just as any other librarian. You can send a message to the staff.

And as far as I know, the 'this review is from author' message is something automatic on claimed profiles.