Explore and Reform: Two Travellers from Istanbul to Late Ottoman Syria Jitka Malečková, Petr Kučera The article examines the travel accounts of two representatives of Ottoman-Turkish elites, Şerafeddin Magmumi and Halide Edib, describing their official missions in Syria in the 1890s and 1910s, respectively. Inspired by the works of Ussama Makdisi, Selim Deringil and Edhem Eldem, it analyses the…
Labrador Moravian Missions and the Czech Collectors of Inuit Objects in the Early Twentieth Century Kateřina Klápšťová The article dealing with collecting activities of two Czechs in Labrador Moravian Brethren Missions. Both collectors independetly created a remarkable collections of the objects that depict cultural change, which is reflected in the materiál sphere of Labrador Inuit life during the first third of…
Die "Scrap-Books"-Sammlung im Archiv des Náprstek-Museums Martin Šámal The scrap-book collection represents a unique set of clippings. Their sources are periodicals of the 2nd half of the 19th century, but also other types of documents. They are sorted according to preset criteria. The collection was founded by Vojta Naprstek’s, based on his experience that he gained…
Female Deities in Mongolian Buddhist Votive Paintings Helena Heroldová The present article focuses on iconography of peaceful and wrathful female deities in Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia. The female deities in Tibetan Buddhism play various roles in everyday practice. Besides the bodhisattvas in female form, they represent personal deities, various protectors and local…
Preliminary Report on the Eighth Excavation Season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga Pavel Onderka, Vlastimil Vrtal, Alexander Gatzsche The eight excavation season of the Archaeological Expedition to Wad Ben Naga focused on the continued excavation of the main sanctuary of the so-called Typhonium (WBN 201) and documentation of finds from previous excavation seasons, namely wall paintings from the main sanctuary.
