Note: Literaturangaben , "The contributions to this book are based on presentations and discussions at a conference, held in October 2011, entitled 'Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space' at the Goethe University in Frankfurt , Introduction : biographies, travels and itineraries of things , Introduction : biographies, travels and itineraries of things , Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries , The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon , Containing precious metals : hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England , Worthless things? : on the difference between devaluing and sorting out things , Against the throw-away-mentality : the reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport , A secondary use of Roman coins? : possibilities and limitations of object biography , The role of flint in mediating identities : the microscopic evidence , Wampum as maussian objet social totalitaire , Bright as the sun : the appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece , The materiality of medieval heirlooms : from biographical to sacred objects , Epilogue : cultural biographies and itineraries of things : second thoughts , Houses of resistance : time and materiality among the Mao of Ethiopia , Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries , The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon , Containing precious metals : hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England , Worthless things? : on the difference between devaluing and sorting out things , Against the throw-away-mentality : the reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport , A secondary use of Roman coins? : possibilities and limitations of object biography , The role of flint in mediating identities : the microscopic evidence , Wampum as maussian objet social totalitaire , Bright as the sun : the appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece , The materiality of medieval heirlooms : from biographical to sacred objects , Epilogue : cultural biographies and itineraries of things : second thoughts