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Design/Repair

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair manifests…

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Sweetening and Intensification

Explores how these two currents are shaping the contours of contemporary Hindu worship, myth, and visual and material culture in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. This volume focuses on two alter…

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Napoleonic Objects and Their Afterlives

Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte's death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals to critically examine the enduring power of visua…

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Weaving and Wearing Identity: Personal Adornment in Past Societies

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories …

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Emily Pillinger, Miranda Stanyon
Music as Classical Reception

Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topi…

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Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon
Autobiographical Traditions in Egodocuments

Using the Icelandic context, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon examines egodocuments as distinct and fascinating manifestations of microhistory, reflecting on their nature, the circumstances in which they originat…

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Metaphor and Meaning

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts. In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw …

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Jessica Rawson
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the disti…

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Katharina Koppenwallner
An Artisan's Guide to Crafts and Places

A guide book to traditional and "dying" craft techniques across regions, exploring their cultural histories and featuring an index with tips on local marketsAs an art historian, stylist and deal…

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Craniv Boyd
Assemblages of Belonging

Ndebele material culture in South Africa was appropriated and commodified during the apartheid era. Craniv Boyd traces Ndebele art back to its origins and examines its creation as enduring practices of id…

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The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Iron Age

Once considered a period of poverty and isolation, devoid of impressive material culture, the Iron Age is now regarded as a pivotal era. It witnessed how the ancient Greeks lost and regained literacy, cre…

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Kelli Wood
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy

This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one fou…

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Al Ridenour
A Season of Madness

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."- William Blake"A Season of Madness is a fantastic carnival of a book. Equal parts irreverent and erudite, it lovingly captures the d…

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Jessica Rawson
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challengi…

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Jamie L Brummitt
Protestant Relics in Early America

In Protestant Relics in Early America , Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivat…

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André Leroi-Gourhan,
André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology, Evolution, and Social Life: A Selection of Texts and Writings from the 1930s to the 1970s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time.André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology …

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Liv Mariah Yarrow
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE

The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Leslie G Virnelson
Fruit of Her Hands

Fruit of Her Hands considers how specialized roles for women are reflected in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, with a focus on four--midwives, diviners, weavers, and sex workers. Virnelson investigates the …

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