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Mobility, meaning and the transformations of things : shifting contexts of material culture through time and space /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hahn, Hans Peter (Autor, Editor ), Weiss, Hadas (Autor, Editor )
Autor Corporativo: Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space Universität Frankfurt am Main
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : biographies, travels and itineraries of things / Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weiss
  • Houses of resistance : time and materiality among the Mao of Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal
  • Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries / Carl Knappett
  • The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon / Jean-Pierre Warnier
  • Containing precious metals : hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England / Peter Oakley
  • Worthless things? : on the difference between devaluing and sorting out things / Anamaria Depner
  • Against the throw-away-mentality : the reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport / Selma Abdelhamid
  • A secondary use of Roman coins? : possibilities and limitations of object biography / Gordana Ciric
  • The role of flint in mediating identities : the microscopic evidence / Annelou van Gijn and Karsten Wentink
  • Wampum as maussian objet social totalitaire / Mario Schmidt
  • Bright as the sun : the appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece / Joseph Maran
  • The materiality of medieval heirlooms : from biographical to sacred objects / Roberta Gilchrist
  • Epilogue : cultural biographies and itineraries of things : second thoughts / David Fontijn.