This book examines Candomblés material culture and its relationship with the evolving cultural politics of Brazil. It employs artefacts as analytical tools to trace the emergence of a diasporic consciousness....Loe edasi...
This book investigates everyday objects in Southeast Asia as integral forms of cultural heritage, examining their functions, significance, and the diverse values and emotions they have embodied over time....Loe edasi...
This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the instruments of the Passion, in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition...Loe edasi...
This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised....Loe edasi...
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources....Loe edasi...
This edited volume offers an original exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time were unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architectu...Loe edasi...
This book builds on the studies of the Sion Treasure and examined questions regarding silver mining, manufacture, and the economic and cultural role of the silver vessels....Loe edasi...
First published in 1967 Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age presents a collection of documents, textual and pictorial, and human, illustrating and describing what the author calls, one of the most vigorous, vital, fertile periods in the hist...Loe edasi...
The third edition of Crusader Archaeology updates previous editions to include coverage of important recent work in the field. It examines what life was like for European settlers and travellers to the crusader states during the centuries of Latin r...Loe edasi...
This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches....Loe edasi...
This volume by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a discussion on materialism in its many forms. For postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthro...Loe edasi...
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this 6-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader - anyone keen to learn about Victorian things. This volume, Fashionable Things, will focu...Loe edasi...
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume will l...Loe edasi...
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume on Victorian Arts will include sources on painting sculpture, book illustration, photography and the much-neglected area of Victorian stained g...Loe edasi...
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume, Manuf...Loe edasi...
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This second volume, Science and Medicine, will examine objects (from the most significant to the most obscure) that played a part in nineteenth-century sci...Loe edasi...
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This third volume, Invention and Technology, will look at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and short-lived....Loe edasi...
Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recyc...Loe edasi...
