Values and revaluations : the transformation and genesis of 'values in things' from archaeological and anthropological perspectives / edited by Hans Peter Hahn, Anja Klöckner, Dirk Wicke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hahn, Hans Peter, editor.

Klöckner, Anja, editor.

Wicke, Dirk, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Economic aspects--History.

Material culture.

Material culture--Social aspects--History.

Value--Social aspects--History.

Value.

Material culture--Social aspects.

Value--Social aspects.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

iv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Values and value

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

pt. II Re-evaluations

8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations / Dirk Wicke

9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the 2nd 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781789258134

1789258138

OCLC:

1295105066

Publisher Number:

99990679981