Format:
Online-Ressource (433 p)
ISBN:
9781842175255
Content:
Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upo
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Biographies, travels and itineraries of things; 2 Houses of resistance: Time and materiality among the Mao of Ethiopia; 3 Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries; 4 The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon; 5 Containing precious metals: Hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England; 6 Worthless things? On the difference between devaluing and sorting out things
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7 Against the throw-away-mentality: The reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport8 A secondary use of Roman coins? Possibilities and limitations of object biography; 9 The role of flint in mediating identities: The microscopic evidence; 10 Wampum as Maussian objet social totalitaire; 11 Bright as the sun: The appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece; 12 The materiality of medieval heirlooms: From biographical to sacred objects; 13 Epilogue: Cultural biographies and itineraries of things: Second thoughts; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781782970842
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781842175255
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mobility, meaning and the transformations of things Oxford [u.a.] : Oxbow Books, 2013 ISBN 9781842175255
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Materialität
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Ethnologie
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Kulturanthropologie
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Ethnoarchäologie
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Sachkultur
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Materialität
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Ethnologie
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Author information:
Hahn, Hans Peter 1963-
