| Portion of title |
Transformation and genesis of 'values in things' from archaeological and anthropological perspectives |
| Contents |
Introduction to Part I: Values and value: Some approaches to the concept of 'values in things' / Hans Peter Hahn -- Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani-middle Assyrian transition in material culture / Federico Buccellati -- Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands / Ben Burt -- Objects with (a) history: Observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes / Norbert Franken -- The value of things: Textiles in the Iron Age / Susanna Harris -- Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: Between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism / Ivan Maksimovic -- The gift as an open question / Guido Sprenger -- Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations / Anja Klöckner and Dirk Wicke -- Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the second millennium BCE / Alexander Ahrens -- Beyond the bones: relics in Greek temples / Andreas Hartmann -- The 'Altar of the Emperors' from Carnuntum / Gabrielle Kremer -- How do materials matter? / Lucy Norris -- From antiquities to art: Why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp? / James Whitley -- When secondary is primary: on Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation / Thomas Widlok. |
| Abstract |
"Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood. The case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021951814 |
| ISBN | 9781789258134 paperback |
| ISBN | 1789258138 paperback |
| ISBN | digital |
