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Book Number
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000271640
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ISBN
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 9781842175255
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Main Entry
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Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space: (2001 :: Universität Frankfurt am Main)
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Title
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Mobility, meaning and the transformations of things :. shifting contexts of material culture through time and space / edited by Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weiss.
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Imprint
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Oxford Oakville : Oxbow Books, 2013.
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Descr.
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v, 200 p. : b/w ill., ; 24 cm.
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Gen. note
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"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."
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents
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Introduction : biographies, travels and itineraries of things / Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weiss -- Houses of resistance : time and materiality among the Mao of Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries / Carl Knappett -- The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Containing precious metals : hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England / Peter Oakley -- Worthless things? : on the difference between devaluing and sorting out things / Anamaria Depner -- Against the throw-away-mentality : the reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport / Selma Abdelhamid -- A secondary use of Roman coins? : possibilities and limitations of object biography / Gordana Ciric -- The role of flint in mediating identities : the microscopic evidence / Annelou van Gijn and Karsten Wentink -- Wampum as maussian objet social totalitaire / Mario Schmidt -- Bright as the sun : the appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece / Joseph Maran -- The materiality of medieval heirlooms : from biographical to sacred objects / Roberta Gilchrist -- Epilogue : cultural biographies and itineraries of things : second thoughts / David Fontijn.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Material culture -- Case studies.
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Material culture -- Congresses.
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Add.Entry
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Hahn, Hans Peter, author, editor of compilation.
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Weiss, Hadas, author, editor of compilation.
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Holdings
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British School Library
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