Material Culture of the Numa
Author : Don D. Fowler
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
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Author : Don D. Fowler
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
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Author : Don D. Fowler
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Page : 181 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Great Basin
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Author : Don D. Fowler
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Page : 181 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Kenneth L. Ames
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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Author : Don D. Fowler
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Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1644532042
The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.
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File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : I. Hodder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317762320
This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western Europe, provide a rich variety of views and experience in a worldwide perspective. Several of the authors focus on essential points of principle and methodology that must be carefully considered before any particular approach to material culture is adopted. One of the many fundamental questions posed in the book is whether or not all material culture is equivalent to documents which can be 'read' and interpreted by the outside observer. If it is, what is the nature of the 'messages' or meanings conveyed in this way? The book also questions the extent to which acceptance, and subsequent diffusion, of a religious belief or symbol may be qualified by the status of the individuals concerned in transmitting the innovation, as well as by the stratification of the society involved. Several authors deal with 'works of art' and the most effective means of reaching an understanding of their past significance. In some chapters semiotics is seen as the most appropriate technique to apply to the decoding of the assumed rules and grammars of material culture expression.
Author : Stephen Lubar
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588343464
History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.
Author : Susanna Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131541564X
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.