ISBN:
9781789258141
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Material culture-Economic aspects-History
;
Material culture-Social aspects-History
;
Value-Social aspects-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Values and value -- 1. Introduction to Part I: Values and value: some approaches to the concept of 'values in things' -- 2. Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani-middle Assyrian transition in material culture -- 3. Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands -- 4. Objects with (a) history: observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes -- 5. The value of things: textiles in the Iron Age -- 6. Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism -- 7. The gift as an open question -- Part II: Re-evaluations -- 8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations -- 9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE -- 10. Beyond the bones: relics in Greek temples -- 11. The 'Altar of the Emperors' from Carnuntum -- 12. How do materials matter? -- 13. From antiquities to art: why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp? -- 14. When secondary is primary: on Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation.
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