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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gifts Romance and Consumer Culture
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Taylor & Francis Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean Mobility Materiality and Identity
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Taylor & Francis Culture Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media
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Taylor & Francis Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
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Taylor & Francis Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studying Mobile Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collective Creativity Art and Society in the South Pacific Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the IndoPacific
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ritual Performance and the Senses
Book SynopsisRitual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shriTrade Review"Bull and Mitchell provide a truly thought-provoking collection of essays by renowned authors widely influential in the fields of performance studies, sensory/sound studies, and cognitive neuroscience/neurophysics. It is a must-read for all interested in ritual plain and simple as well as for all interested in the complex interplay of cognition, senses, and performance. - Reading Religion This is an excellent collection of articles that are both theoretically and empirically rich and offer innovative approaches to long-standing concepts. - Religion and Society: Advances in Research The book is highly recommendable to anthropologists working on all fields ... It provides a productive entry into debates that will probably shape the future of our discipline as it moves beyond the constraints of a 'science of culture'. - Anthropos [This] book has been carefully curated to ensure that the points of interest ... speak to readers from across the fields of performance studies, anthropology, neuroanthropology and beyond. - HARTS & Minds"Table of ContentsIntroductionJon P. Mitchell and Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UKRitual Action Shapes Our Brains: an Essay in NeuroanthropologyRobert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, GermanyPlace-making in the 'Holy of Holies': the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, JerusalemTrevor Marchand, School of Oriental and African Studies, UKThe Importance of Repetition: Ritual as Extension of MindGreg Downey, Macquarie University, AustraliaDivine Intervention: Ontology, Cognition and Performance in Maltese Visionary PhenomenaJon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex, UKMaking 'Sense' in Embodied/Enactive Modes of Actor Training and PerformancePhilip Zarrili, University of Exeter, UKRamlila and SpaceRichard Schechner, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USAExploring the Andean Sensory Model: Knowledge, Memory and the Experience of PilgrimageZoila Mendoza, University of California, Davis, USASensation and TransmissionDavid Howes, Concordia University, CanadaAfterwordSarah Pink, Loughborough University, UKBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Craft
Book SynopsisFrom Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world. Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors' ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own, bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices, this collTrade Review"Critical Craft is an effective contribution to the anthropology of craft, of work, and of 'thing' or objects. It clearly demonstrates that there is more to crafts of all sorts than 'tradition,' expertise, and 'authenticity.' Anthropologists and others must be wary of assumptions about who does what kind of work or possesses what kind of knowledge, and we must be, like the authors of these quality essays, aware of the (unequal) agency of individuals and groups as they struggle within the field of any particular craft industry. - Anthropology Review Database - Jack David Eller [The book] has extended my understanding of craft as an integral part of contemporary global change ... It puts forward a convincing case for craft as a fruitful topic of study for social science scholars. - International Journal of Education Through Art"Table of Contents1: Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in AnthropologyAlicia Ory DeNicola, Oxford College of Emory University, USA and Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University Vancouver, USAPart I: Contentions2: Who Authors Crafts? Producing Woodcarvings and Authorship in Oaxaca, MexicoAlanna Cant, University of Oslo, Norway3: Forging Source: Considering the Craft of Computer Programming Lane DeNicola, Emory University, USA4: American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Rutgers University, USA5: Designs on Craft: Negotiating Artisanal Knowledge and Identity in IndiaClare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University Vancouver, USA and Alicia Ory DeNicola, Oxford College of Emory University, USA6: Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft Millaray Villalobos, Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería, Costa RicaPart II: Conundrums7: Number in Craft: Situated Numbering Practices in Do-It-Yourself Sensor SystemsDawn Nafus and Richard Beckwith, Intel Corporation, USA8: Crafting Good Chocolate in France and the US Susan Terrio, Georgetown University, USA9: Creativity, Critique and Conservatism: Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers Myriem Naji, University College London, UK10: Refashioning a Global Craft Commodity Flow from the Central PhilippinesB. Lynne Milgram, OCAD University, CanadaPart III: Conflicts11: ConflictingIdeologiesof the DigitalHand: Locating the Material in a Digital AgeDaniela Rosner, University of Washington, USA12: Materials, the Nation and the Self: Division of Labor in a Taiwanese CraftGeoffrey Gowlland, University of Oslo, Norway13: Craft, Memory and Loss: Hand-Embroidery in Zaria City, NigeriaElisha Renne, University of Michigan, USA14: Crafting Muslim Artisans: Agency and Exclusion in India’s Urban Craft CommunitiesMira Mohsini, Kalamazoo College, USANotesReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Material Culture of Failure
Book SynopsisWhat happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they should'? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing concepts such as failure, incoherence or incompetence as antithetical to social life, this innovative new book examines the unexpected and surprising ways in which failure can lead to positive and creative results. Combining both theoretical and ethnographic approaches to failure, The Material Culture of Failure explores how failure manifests itself and operates in a variety of contexts. The editors present ten ethnographic encounters of failure from areas as diverse as design, textiles, religion, beauty, and physical failure covering Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and the Arabian Gulf. Identifying common themes such as interpersonal, national and religious articulations of power and identity, the book shows some of the underlying assumptions that are revealed when materials fail, designs crumble, or things develop unexpectedly.The firstTrade Review"At last, we have here a thoughtful and provocative series of essays, along with an excellent theoretical introduction, on how failures illuminate the contexts that produce and define them. Noting that failure is everywhere, both in traditional and contemporary societies, the authors reveal how failures in technology, ritual, politics and design are always productive, though usually not in the ways that we anticipate. - Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA Material failure is disappointing, sometimes grotesque, always inevitable. But as the contributors to this diverse and engaging anthology suggest, material failure can open creative space for subjects on the ground and productive ruminations for the anthropologists who witness them, claiming fresh ground for the study of material culture. - Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History, USA This inspiring book is essential reading for all researchers and students interested in material culture. What happens when we take failure seriously? What happens when things go wrong? From these simple questions the contributors to this volume open up an entrancing new world for us all to explore. - Oliver Harris, University of Leicester, UK"Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsForeword: Failure and Fragility: Towards a Material Culture of the End of the World as We Knew ItDimitris Dalakoglu, Vrije University Amsterdam, Netherlands1. Introduction: Toward a General Theory of FailureTimothy Carroll, David Jeevendrampillai, and Aaron Parkhurst, University College London, UK2. Miracles and Crushed Dreams: Material Disillusions in the Design IndustryCamilla Sundwall, University College London, UK3. When Krishna Wore a Kimono: Deity Clothing as Rupture and InefficacyUrmila Mohan, University College London, UK4. Whitened Anxiety: Bottled Identity in the EmiratesAaron Lee Parkhurst, University College London, UK5. Holy Water, Healing and the Sacredness of KnowledgeAlexandra Antohin, Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies, UK6. Haredi (Material) Cultures of Health at the 'Hard to Reach' Margins of the StateBen Kasstan, Durham University, UK7. Failure as Constructive Participation? Being Stupid in the SuburbsDavid Jeevendrampillai, University College London, UK8. Destruction of Locality: On Heritage and Failure in 'Crisis Syria'Julie Shackelford, University College London, UK9. Axis of Incoherence: Engagement and Failure Between Two Material Regimes of ChristianityTimothy Carroll, University College London, UK10. The Materiality of Silence: Assembling the Absence of Sound and the Memory of 9/11Pwyll ap Stifin, University College London, UKAfterwordVictor Buchli, University College London, UKIndex
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Cambridge University Press Perspectivism in Archaeology
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Cambridge University Press The Matter of History How Things Create The Past Studies in Environment and History
Book SynopsisPart materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops a radical new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past that explains how powerful organisms and things pushed diverse nations and cultures towards a global 'Great Convergence'.Trade Review'In this original, important, and beautifully written book, LeCain develops a neo-materialist theory of history to illuminate the environmental histories of seemingly disparate subjects: copper mines, silkworms, and longhorn cattle. Using insights from evolutionary theory, animal studies, and the anthropocene, LeCain shows how the cultural and the material are deeply interwoven in every aspect of resource extraction.' Nancy Langston, Michigan Technological University'By putting things front and center, LeCain challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about how we write history in the twenty-first century. He offers us both a lucid guide to a wide range of materialist theories and a set of fascinating examples.' Linda Nash, University of Washington'The Matter of History constitutes the first successful attempt to create an historical narrative truly grounded in a non-anthropocentric ethos, both in terms of its theoretical premises and of its methodological choices … a valuable example of an historical research able to interpret past events in order to read the present time.' Claudio de Majo, Global Environment'[A] profound and provocative book … thoughtful critique of antimaterialist history with an equally thoughtful summary of recent scholarship … [LeCain] argues convincingly that giving animals, plants, and minerals credit for shaping the world will allow us to write a more accurate and interesting history.' Steven Lubar, Technology and Culture'[The Matter of History] easily counts among the ten most fascinating books that I have read over the last decade.' Stefan Berger, Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements'A fresh, provocative, and profound book … [The Matter of History] pushes environmental-history methodology to a new level of engagement with all actors of the material world.' Anne Norton Greene, Journal of Interdisciplinary History'The Matter of History constitutes the first successful attempt to create an historical narrative truly grounded in a non-anthropocentric ethos, both in terms of its theoretical premises and of its methodological choices.' Caludio de Majo, Global EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Fellow travelers: the non-human things that make us human; 2. We never left Eden: the religious and secular marginalization of matter; 3. Natural born humans: a neo-materialist theory and method of history; 4. The longhorn: the animal intelligence behind American open range ranching; 5. The silkworm: the innovative insects behind Japanese modernization; 6. The copper atom: conductivity and the great convergence of Japan and the West; 7. The matter of humans: beyond the Anthropocene and towards a new humanism.
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Cambridge University Press The Purchase of the Past
Book SynopsisOffering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of ''private patrimony'', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors'' investments not just financial but also emotional and imaginative in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that privatTrade Review'Creatively conceptualized, deeply researched, and elegantly written, The Purchase of the Past provides an original and convincing account of the crucial role of material culture and private collecting in negotiating the past and constructing historical narratives in nineteenth-century France. Beautifully-wrought case studies of the 'private patrimonies' assembled by individual collectors detail how the practices and meanings of collecting changed in this period.' Leora Auslander, University of Chicago'Stammers immerses the reader in the fascinating world of the nineteenth-century Parisian collector, with a huge array of sources and a lively prose style. His historical approach usefully emphasizes the links between private collectors and French political and social life, notably their role in the rise of public museums and in the shaping of national memory.' Colin Heywood, Emeritus Professor of Modern French History, University of Nottingham'This outstanding work emerges from the intuition that the French Revolution, and its aftermath, can provide a historical framework for the analysis of diverse collecting practices as they come to acquire social and political significance, as well as illuminating their aesthetic dimensions. Through vindicating this precious insight, Stammers has produced a model of cultural criticism that will stand the test of time.' Stephen Bann CBE FBA, Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol'A magisterial and highly original study exploring the world of nineteenth-century French collecting from three interlocked vantage points: the political upheavals of the 1790s, the collection of the material culture emerging from that era and the wider development of a historical consciousness that sought to make sense of it. Erudite but written with brio, The Purchase of the Past will durably impact on the way we think about French national and cultural identity.' Colin Jones CBE FBA, Queen Mary University of London'Focusing on revolutionary Paris through the 19th century, Stammers (Univ. of Durham, UK) contends that art collectors significantly fashioned French and Western modernity … The author argues that post-1789 dispersals of objects and Jacobin disregard for the past crucially impressed collectors, who often identified order, taste, values, and heritage with old regime material culture … Highly recommended.' L. A. Rollo, Choice'The Purchase of the Past thoroughly explores how both private collectors and the general public can be understood to have profited from the disarray generated by the events of the French Revolution, with Stammers doing an excellent job of identifying and interrogating the ways in which the former might have benefited more overall than the latter. Stammers's chapters are simultaneously expansive and meticulously researched, and his book will serve as a productive resource for historians for many years to come.' Caitlin Doley, University of York, The British Journal for the History of Science'This book, by one of its most dynamic champions, is an indispensable and highly readable volume for anyone interested in French nineteenth-century history and collecting.' Kate Heard, Journal of the History of CollectionsTable of ContentsIntroduction. Collection, recollection, revolution; 1. Amateurs and the art market in transition (c.1780–1830); 2. Archiving and envisioning the French Revolution (c.1780–1830); 3. Book-hunting, bibliophilia and a textual restoration (c.1790–1840); 4. Salvaging the gothic in private and public spaces (c.1820–70); 5. Royalists versus vandals, and the cult of the old regime (c.1860–1880); 6. Allies of the Republic? Inside the sale of the century (c.1870–1895); Conclusion. The resilience and eclipse of curiosité.
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Cambridge University Press Boxes and Books in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisRazzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries, to reveal the importance of the box as object and idea in early modern culture. This book is for students and researchers in English Literature, History, and Art History, as well as book historians and librarians.Table of Contents1. Chests of the Mind in Early Modern England; 2. The Renaissance of the Box: Metaphors of Interpretation; 3. The Word in a Box: Reforming the Book; 4. How to Read a Reliquary; 5. 'Because This Box We Know': Embodying the Box.
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Cambridge University Press EighteenthCentury Illustration and Literary Material Culture
This Element focuses on the 'content' of illustrations and its adaptation within the framework of a new medium; case studies examine the use across different media of illustrations of three eighteenth-century works. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press The Material Culture of the Jacobites
Book SynopsisAn original and thought-provoking study of the material objects produced, acquired and treasured by those who worked for the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, or at least felt strong nostalgia for its passing, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Trade Review'Neil Guthrie presents an impressive range of subject matter and a wealth of learning in this original, erudite, and perceptive book. He is not only well-versed in eighteenth-century history and literature, but also knows the relevant fields of law - necessary for an understanding of the limited room for manoeuvre available to Jacobites - and Latinity, the medium for so many tags, allusions and inscriptions in Jacobite literature.' Colin Kidd, University of Glasgow'Neil Guthrie's book is an excellent introduction to the wide-ranging world of Jacobite material culture. … Guthrie's highlighted themes and robust bibliography point the way forward for those who want to delve further into specificities of the subject matter.' Jennifer Novotny, Northern Scotland JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'By things themselves': the danger of Jacobite material culture; 2. 'Many emblems of sedition and treason': patterns of Jacobite visual symbolism; 3. 'Their disloyal and wicked inscriptions': the uses of texts on Jacobite objects; 4. 'Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis': phases and varieties of Jacobite material culture; 5. 'Those who are fortunate enough to possess pictures and relics': later uses of Jacobite material culture; Bibliography.
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The History Press Ltd A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
Book SynopsisWhy do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.Trade Review'I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us ... Every page elicits at least one “ah” “ooh” or “wow!”, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple As Far As The Eye Can See is a remarkable achievement.' -- Stephen Fry 'In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. As Far as the Eye Can See paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.' -- Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator 'A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that ...' -- Giles Coren, presenter, columnist 'From the first fires to the Facebook age, As Far as the Eye Can See takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.' -- Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experimentand Endeavour'I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us ... Every page elicits at least one “ah” “ooh” or “wow!”, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple As Far As The Eye Can See is a remarkable achievement.' -- Stephen Fry 'In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. As Far as the Eye Can See paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.' -- Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator 'A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that ...' -- Giles Coren, presenter, columnist 'From the first fires to the Facebook age, As Far as the Eye Can See takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.' -- Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experiment and Endeavour
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Smithsonian Books The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern
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Smithsonian Books Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science,
Book SynopsisHow do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came from. In the pursuit of this understanding museums are invaluable; they are repositories not just of things but also of past, present, and future knowledge. Engaging Smithsonian Objects puts these ideas into practice, using objects to bring us to new knowledge and showing how museums support us in the endeavor. The book is organized around ten objects from the Smithsonian’s vast collections. Some of the objects are iconic—the Ruby Slippers from the The Wizard of Oz or three Stradivarius string instruments—while others are more ordinary, though no less interesting—an Iron Lung or a Hawaiian gourd drum. Two different authors with expertise in different academic disciplines write about each object from their unique professional and personal perspective. Both the authors and the ten featured objects represent a range of academic disciplines, from art to anthropology to geology. Taken together, the twenty essays in the book demonstrate just how much we can learn from objects by considering their kaleidoscopic meaning and significance from a variety of viewpoints. The book’s interdisciplinary engagement with objects was inspired by the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, now in its twenty-sixth year. For students of material culture and museum studies, this book illustrates the vitality and value of exploring material culture through the lens of intersecting disciplinary perspectives. For students of curiosity and lifelong learning, this book offers a lively and thoughtful look into the Smithsonian’s collection and the many vibrant worlds it represents. Richly illustrated with color plates and photographs throughout, Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts is a beautiful and stimulating answer to the question, “How do we know our world, and how can we know more?”
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Smithsonian Books The Value of Money
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Brepols N.V. Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture
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Bohlau Verlag Object Links: Dinge in Beziehung
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Bohlau Verlag Ergrabene Kontexte: Interpretationen
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Bohlau Verlag Materielle Kultur und Konsum in der Frühen
Book SynopsisOb unscheinbarer Alltagsgegenstand oder gehüteter Kunstschatz die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Objekte haben Geschichte und machen Geschichte erzählbar. Zehn exemplarische Studien befassen sich mit der Frage, wie frühneuzeitliche Menschen, Institutionen und Gemeinwesen mit den sie umgebenden Dingen und den ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Gütern umgingen. Anhand von Materialien und Macharten, Verbrauchsformen und Gebrauchsweisen, Eignungen und Anforderungen, Beziehungen und Bewegungen, Wissen und Wahrnehmungen werden aus objekt- und konsumgeschichtlicher Perspektive die Grundzüge der frühneuzeitlichen Epoche umrissen. Der aus einem internationalen und interdisziplinären Netzwerk hervorgegangene Band gibt erstmals eine deutschsprachige Einführung in dieses innovative Gebiet der Frühneuzeitforschung.
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Dietrich Reimer Bekenntnisse: Formen Und Formeln
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Konstanzer Marktstatte Im Mittelalter Und in
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Germanische Siedlungsspuren Des 3. Bis 5.
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund
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Dr Ludwig Reichert St. Simeon in Trier Zwischen Renovatio Und
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Peeters Publishers The Iconography of Magic: Images of Power and the
Book SynopsisThe study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.
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Nordic Academic Press Expanding media histories: Cultural and material
Book SynopsisContemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first part centres on media systems and media events, with studies of spiritist séances, Gallup polls, the mediated persona of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the burial of a Swedish elder statesman in 1915. The second part focuses on media materialities and infrastructure such as art replicas, ring binders, tourist guidebooks, and media technology in the IKEA home. Aimed at students and academics alike, Expanding Media Histories offers new empirical research, which engages critically with key concepts in media history today.
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