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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hans Peter Hahn , Anja Kloeckner , Dirk WickePublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781789258134ISBN 10: 1789258138 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Part I: Values and value: Some approaches to the concept of 'values in things' Hans Peter Hahn 2. Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani-middle Assyrian transition in material culture Federico Buccellati 3. Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands Ben Burt 4. Objects with (a) history: Observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes Norbert Franken 5. The value of things: Textiles in the Iron Age Susanna Harris 6. Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: Between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism Ivan Maksimovic 7. The gift as an open question Guido Sprenger 8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations Anja Kloeckner and Dirk Wicke 9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the second millennium BCE Alexander Ahrens 10. Beyond the Bones. Relics in Greek Temples Andreas Hartmann 11. The 'Altar of the Emperors' from Carnuntum Gabrielle Kremer 12. How do materials matter? Lucy Norris 13. From antiquities to art: Why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp? James Whitley 14. When secondary is primary: On Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation Thomas WidlokReviewsAuthor InformationHans P. Hahn is Professor for Anthropology with regional focus on Africa at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spent many years in West Africa (Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso) doing ethnographic fieldwork on a wide range of themes of rural economies. His research interests are oriented towards material culture, consumption, migration and mobility in non-western societies. He participated in the organization of several exhibitions on human action and materiality. Other ongoing research initiatives are linked with polysemic approaches to material culture studies. Anja Kloeckner is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Head of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research interests are visual media in Greek and Roman culture, funerary culture in Roman Imperial times and archaeology of religion. Her recent publications include an edited volume on Treveran Grave Monument. Dirk Wicke is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. He directed fieldwork in Northern Mesopotamia with a special focus on the periods of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages. His interests focus on the archaeology of ancient Assyria in general and on ancient minor arts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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