Cultural Studies
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Material Cultures in Public Engagement: Re-Inventing Public Archaeology with Museum Collections [Paperback]
Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253689
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The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences. The volume establishes a new approach to the study of ... .... Learn More -
The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape [Paperback]
Melanie Jonasch (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253566
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The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of ... .... Learn More -
Art in the Archaeological Imagination [Paperback]
Dragos Gheorghiu (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253528
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The book discusses the creative mental processes of the prehistoric and contemporaryartists, as well as of the archaeologists studying them from the perspective ofcognition and art. Its intention is to highlight the artistic thinking within theima... .... Learn More -
Early Christianity in South-West Britain: Wessex, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Channel Islands [Paperback]
Elizabeth Rees (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253481
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This book offers a new assessment of early Christianity in south-west Britain from the fourth to the tenth centuries, a rich period which includes the transition from Roman to native British to Saxon models of church. The book will be based on evi... .... Learn More -
A Taste for Green: A global perspective on ancient jade, turquoise and variscite exchange [Hardback]
Carlos Rodríguez-Rellán (Editor); Ben Nelson (Editor); Ramón Fábregas Valcarce (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789252743
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Often along vast expanses, ancient societies traded certain commodities that were considered valuable either for functional or symbolic reasons – or, rather, a mixture of both factors. A Taste for Green addresses latest research into the acquisiti... .... Learn More -
The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age: Proceedings of “Arras 200 – celebrating the Iron Age.” [Paperback]
Peter Halkon (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789252583
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In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Ba... .... Learn More -
Nairi Lands: The Identity of the Local Communities of Eastern Anatolia, South Caucasus and Periphery During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. A Reassessment of the Material Culture and the Socio-Economic Landscape [Hardback]
Guido Guarducci (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789252781
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This study analyses the social and symbolic value of the material culture, in particular the pottery production and the architecture, and the social structure of the local communities of a broad area encompassing Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucas... .... Learn More -
Puṣpikā V: Tracing Ancient India, through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology [Paperback]
Heleene De Jonckheere (Editor); Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Editor); Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789252828
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Series: Puṣpikā
Volume: 5
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This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition ... .... Learn More -
That's Entertainment: Spectacle, Amusement, and Leisure Culture [Paperback]
Michele Fadda (Editor); Sara Pesce (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9788869771798
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
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The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of 'official' culture and that of 'popular' entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in th... .... Learn More -
The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism: Myth, Literature, and Anthropology [Paperback]
Andrea Benedetti (Editor); Ulrich van Loyen (Editor)
£18.00ISBN: 9788869771361
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Anthropology
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The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a ... .... Learn More
