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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?”
£30.39
Smithsonian Books The Value of Money
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£28.20
Brepols N.V. Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture
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£37.35
Springer International Publishing AG Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture
Book SynopsisObject Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cultural study. This text helps reveal how everyday objects from pens and coffee cups to our most cherished keepsakes help define our collective histories and personal narratives. Object Studies is organized around accessible and engaging chapters on objects with “model essays” that present original projects designed to engage students with a series of concepts and research activities. Each will demonstrate a key methodology tied to specific learning outcomes, but all chapters will be intertwined in their attention to the project of developing the core skills of “object studies”: careful viewing, writing detailed descriptions, setting out and testing research hypotheses, and telling stories through material artifacts. Aimed towards undergraduate students taking courses in material culture as well as postgraduate students embarking on independent research projects these chapter “studies” are practically oriented and demonstrate research projects that can be undertaken either in a course or even through personal study. Chapters in Object Studies conclude with research questions, suggestions on methodology, and a discursive bibliography designed to help students pursue their own projects based on these examples.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Personal Objects.- Chapter 2: Objects and Local History.- Chapter 3: A History of the World in Coffee Cups.- Chapter 4: Collecting Things: The Psychology of Accumulation, from Museums to Hoarders.- Chapter 5: The Things We Read.- Chapter 6: Consuming Objects.- Chapter 7: Thinking with Things.
£22.49
De Gruyter Rhapsodic Objects: Art, Agency, and Materiality
Book SynopsisCirculation and imitation are key factors in shaping the material world. The authors in this volume explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impact the production and consumption of visual and material culture across times and places. Their essays map multidirectional transactions for cultural goods in which source countries can be positioned at the center. Rhapsodic – literally to stitch or weave songs – paired with objects – from thrown against – intertwines complexity and action. Rhapsodic objects thus beckons to the layered narratives of the objects themselves, their making, and their reception over time. The concept further underlines their potential to express creativity, generate emotion, and reveal histories – often tainted with violence.
£53.12
Bohlau Verlag Object Links: Dinge in Beziehung
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£56.71
Bohlau Verlag Ergrabene Kontexte: Interpretationen
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£97.87
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.
£60.08
Harrassowitz Vom Wesen Der Dinge: Realitaten Und Konzeptionen
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£54.15
Dietrich Reimer Bekenntnisse: Formen Und Formeln
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£36.10
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology:
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£90.25
Dr Ludwig Reichert Katalog Der Romischen Graber Des 1. Jahrhunderts
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£111.15
Dr Ludwig Reichert Stadt - Land - Fluss. Grabdenkmaler Der Treverer
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£96.90
Transcript Verlag Materials of Culture: Approaches to Materials and
Book SynopsisWhile the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.
£45.04
V&R unipress GmbH Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Stuckarbeiten Aus Kharab Sayyar: Das Grosse
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Konstanzer Marktstatte Im Mittelalter Und in
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£98.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Das Romische Graberfeld Von Stettfeld II.:
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£84.55
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim I.: Beitrage Zur Computertomographie
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£64.60
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim II.1.: Katalog Der Graber 1-300. Band
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£141.55
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Lowenmensch Und Mehr: Die Ausgrabungen 2008-2013
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£50.35
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim II.2: Katalog Der Graber 301-600
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£141.55
Dr Ludwig Reichert Germanische Siedlungsspuren Des 3. Bis 5.
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£171.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Archaologie Des Mithraskultes: Architektur Und
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£98.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Konstanz Obere Augustinergasse: Ein
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£107.35
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau
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£70.30
Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 47/2015:
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£19.29
Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 48/2016:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 49/2017:
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Funde Und Ausgrabungen Im Bezirk Trier 50/2018:
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£26.10
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Gutshof Und Das Graberfeld Bei
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£51.30
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Goldmunzenschatz Aus Der Feldstrasse
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert Trierer Zeitschrift 79/80 2016/2017: Archaologie
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£68.40
Dr Ludwig Reichert St. Simeon in Trier Zwischen Renovatio Und
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£111.15
Aarhus University Press Excavating The Mind: Cross-Sections Through
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£48.04
Aarhus University Press Posthuman Condition: Ethics, Aesthetics &
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£26.96
Silvana Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and the Cultures of
Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Antonio Aimi and Antonio Guarnotta, offers a new, up-to-date study of the most important cultures of Mesoamerica and of the Peruvian Area, through magnificent artefacts held by the MIC (Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza) and various other Italian museums. The cultures of the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and other populations of ancient America are analysed in light of the most recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research. Themes of prime importance are examined in depth: the conquest of America as seen from the point of view of the conquered, the status of women, the systems of calculation of ancient Peru, and pre-Columbian art presented as art, not only as archaeology. Text in English and Italian.
£23.96
Mimesis International The Size Effect: A Journey into Design, Fashion
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, the authors adopt an interdisciplinary approach overcoming the boundaries of their discipline. Through different perspectives this volume presents and develops new paradigms that explain the complexities of the contemporary era and its new sizes.
£11.25
Five Continents Editions Prisoners' Objects - Collection of the
Book SynopsisThe International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum houses an extraordinary collection of 'prisoners' objects'. These were made by prison inmates and presented to the ICRC delegates who visited them, as provided for by the Geneva Conventions. For over a century, these objects have borne mute witness to the numerous violent episodes that continue to ravage our planet, from Chile, Vietnam, Algeria and Yugoslavia, to Rwanda and Afghanistan. Made from simple materials - whatever comes to hand in a prison - these objects express the need to escape the world of the jailbird. As a Lebanese inmate puts it, 'Creating is a way of acquiring freedom of expression, it gives us a means to say what we think while everything we see around urges us to keep quiet and to forget who we are.' While some of these works touch us through their simplicity, others astonish us with their beauty or ingeniousness. Each bears the imprint of a personal story loaded with emotion, inviting us on a journey through time and collective history.
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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.
£100.07
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.
£45.95
Leuven University Press At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting
Book SynopsisDomestic materiality in a remarkable European cityHow did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory as a source and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the daily activities of men and women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges’ middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings and images of furniture and textiles from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).“Be careful with formulating large stories and generalisations about evolution in material culture and consumption culture. Each (urban) community has its own story to tell.” Read a Q&A with Julie De GrootTrade ReviewBrugge was een ontmoetingsplaats voor humanistische geleerden, maar hoe creëerden de Bruggelingen een thuis, hoe zag een gewoon wooninterieur eruit in de 16de eeuw, en nog belangrijker, hoe bestudeer je eigenlijk de huiselijke cultuur van vervlogen tijden door documenten zoals nalatenschapsinventarissen te analyseren? Door objecten, mensen en huiselijke ruimtes, nauwgezet met elkaar te verbinden, laat het boek, “At Home in Renaissance Bruges” kennismaken met de rijke materiële wereld van de Brugse burgers in de Renaissance, hun zintuiglijke betrokkenheid, hun religieuze praktijk, de dagelijkse activiteiten van zowel mannen als vrouwen, en andere sociale factoren.Michel Dutrieue, Stretto, 28 april 2022“The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.”, zei de bekende interieurarchitect David Hicks ooit. De publicatie At home in Renaissance Bruges van historica Julie De Groot beaamt dit. Aan de hand van boedelinventarissen worden verschillende levens van Bruggelingen uit de zestiende eeuw opnieuw zichtbaar gemaakt. Michelle Coenen, Bladspiegel, 29 juli 2022As De Groot shows, the resulting economic downturn was not as severe as past scholarship assumed, but there was nevertheless a gradual decrease of industry and trade, a loss of international connections, and an exodus of merchants and skilled artisans, including painters. Thus, At Home in Renaissance Bruges allows an unusual peek into the homes of a city that was still of substance but had effectively been reduced to a middling position in its own right, following the fashions of Antwerp rather than setting trends for others.Rembrandt Duits, Journal of Design History, epac047, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epac047 Dit boek handelt over de materiële cultuur van de huizen van de Brugse middenklasse. Tot nu toe werd dit aspect weinig onderzocht: hoe leefden die mensen in het Brugge van de 16de eeuw? Hoe richtten ze hun woningen in? Welk meubilair kochten ze aan? Hoe versierden ze de binnenruimte? Deelstudies focusten op een facet van het dagelijks leven, geïnspireerd door de archeologie, de bouwgeschiedenis, de kunstgeschiedenis en de materiële culturele studies. Dit boek doet een poging om al deze facetten van ruimtes, bewoners en objecten in één studie samen te brengen. [...] De gedegen en wetenschappelijke studie is niet bedoeld als een mooi kijkboek over interieurs van de 16de eeuw. De illustraties, grotendeels gebundeld achteraan, zijn beperkt gehouden en het formaat van de papieren paperbackversie is dat van een leesboek. In elk geval een origineel en gefundeerd onderzoek! Marjan Buyle, M&L, 41-5 (2022) Much scholarship on sixteenth-century material culture in the Netherlands focuses on the cosmopolitan metropolis of Antwerp and, more specifically, its wealthy entrepreneurs. Julie De Groot’s choice to study Bruges’s non-elite households is, therefore, a much welcome – and much needed – addition to the research on domestic objects and domesticity in the 1500s, even more so as the study is available both in paperback and as an open-access e-book. As the author convincingly argues, Bruges offers an interesting case study because it illustrates a ‘gradual transition [...] from an international metropolis to a sizeable provincial centre’. Likewise, by concentrating on the neither wealthy nor poor ‘middling sort’, and on shopkeepers and artisans in particular, At Home in Renaissance Bruges provides information on the material fabric of ordinary burghers’ lives in the turbulent sixteenth century. Barbara Kaminska, bmgn — Low Countries Historical Review | Volume 137 (2022), https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.13449Er gaat sedert de jaren 2000 heel wat aandacht naar materiële cultuur bij de gewone man in de loop van de geschiedenis. Dit boek hoort perfect in dat rijtje thuis. Wat stond er in de huizen (in dit geval van Brugse burgers met een beetje centen) in de Bourgondische tijd? En wat leert ons de connectie tussen archivalische en picturale bronnen? Staan in musea de voorwerpen die we geschilderd zien? De Groot heeft jarenlang gewerkt aan de connectie en is tot interessante bevindingen gekomen.Christusrex.be, 20.02.2023De Groot’s extensive and meticulous statistical analysis of inventory evidence, focus on the middling sort, and her interest in how identities were created and displayed via everyday household objects locates her work firmly among English scholarship on the home. Sarah Hinds, TSEG, VOL. 20, NO. 1, 2023, https://tseg.nl/article/view/13624/15552Table of ContentsGENERAL INTRODUCTION The Spatial Turn Reclaiming Domesticity At Home in Renaissance Bruges Sources and Challenges The Structure of the Book PART 1CROSSING THE THRESHOLD: THE ORGANISATION OF DOMESTIC SPACEINTRODUCTION Functional Specialisation: A Subject of Discussion What’s in a Name? The Nomenclature of Domestic Space CONNECTING THE HOUSE TO THE STREET? THE SHOP AND WORKSHOP Introduction ‘Historians and the Nation of Shopkeepers’ Shops and Shopping in Bruges Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture THE MERCHANT IN THE CONTOOR Introduction The Contoor in Bruges Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture AT THE HEART OF THE HOME: ROOMS AT THE HEART OF DOMESTIC CULTURE The Kitchen in Bruges Dining Room and Salette The Elusive Realm of Sleep: Sleeping Rooms Similarities and Differences: The Broader Picture PART 2DOMESTIC OBJECTS IN CONTEXTINTRODUCTION DEVOTION ON DISPLAY? PAINTINGS IN DOMESTIC INTERIORS Introduction What’s in a Name? Possessing Paintings in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges Canvas and Panel Paintings Paintings and Iconographical Themes Devotion on Display Conclusions FOR PUBLIC ELEGANCE AND PRIVATE COMFORT: TEXTILES AND FURNITURE Introduction Comfort and the Textile Environment The Seat of Authority? The Design and Social Character of Seating Furniture Show Me Your Bed and I’ll Tell You Who You Are! Keeping Up Appearances? Tapestry in the Domestic Interior A Colourful Interior Exposing or Storing Textiles: The Garderobe and the Cleerschaprade Conclusions GENERAL CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX 1: INVENTORY HOLDERS WHO WORKED AT HOME APPENDIX 2: INVENTORIES WITH ‘CONTOOR’ NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY PLATES
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