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German term or phrase:	Neuansatz
English translation:	new approach
Entered by:	David Williams

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14:56 Mar 13, 2009

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Science - Archaeology

German term or phrase: Neuansatz

Context:
"Wegweisend ist die soziologische Herangehensweise, mit der sie geradezu einen Neuansatz der Ägyptologie bewirkte..."

Both Herangehensweise and Neuansatz seem to be crying out to be translated as "approach", but of course that doesn't work in English:

This sociological approach, with which she literally brought about a new approach, is pioneering...

Would "revolution" (or "minor revolution") be too strong for Neuansatz?

David Williams KudoZ activity Questions: 1362 (7 open) (68 closed without grading) Answers: 463
Local time: 03:53

new approach

Explanation:
You could combine this with 'methodology' perhaps for your first term...

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Note added at 12 mins (2009-03-13 15:09:49 GMT)
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I think revolution is far too strong and too wide in its effects. If it were the case, I would have expected the German to reflect it.

Selected response from:

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:53

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Thanks!
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new methodology

ArchyR

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new approach

Helen Shiner

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new approach

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:53
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PRO pts in category: 27

Grading comment

Thanks!

9 hrs confidence:

new methodology

Explanation:
This paragraph in Juan Jose Castillos' paper on Predynastic Egypt is useful here:
"As archaeology and egyptology become more multidisciplinarian, with all the advantages such [an] approach implies, it would be unwise to ignore the advances in modern sociological research in order to refine our perception of the social structure and the degree of inequality in early Egyptian communities. Very limited attempts in this direction have been made, although I have applied this methodology to a large data base of over 8,000 Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic tombs, using the variables that involved aspects of these funerary practices that could yield enough information to make the results significant." He is a respected Egyptologist from Argentina.
It would have bene helpful if you would have revealed who "she" is.

Reference: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/5607/index6.html

ArchyR
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