From Temple to Museum: Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley 1351356097, 9781351356091

From Temple to Museum: Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley [1 ed.] 9781138202498

Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than

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From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley 9780199087655, 0199087652

This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society during the mid-first mill

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From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millenium BC in the Ganga Valley [New Ed] 9780195626759

This is an attempt to define Indian society in the crucial period of the mid-first millennium BC and in the seminal area

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Exploring Emotion, Care, and Enthusiasm in “Unloved” Museum Collections 9781641890564

Millions of items are held in museum collections around the world but many museums have very few visitors to their store

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Between Statues and Icons: Iconic Persons from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 350679082X, 9783506790828, 9783657790821

This book argues that Romans credited certain living persons with the capacity to function as cult statues, that is, as

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Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages 900454321X, 9789004543218

This book explores the way that the Torah was appreciated and interpreted as a text and symbol in Christian and Jewish s

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The Punjab in nineteenth century tracts: an introduction to the pamphlet collections in the British Museum and India Office

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Multiple Modernities, 1905-1970 : from the Collections of the National Museum of Modern Art 9782844266538, 2844266533

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Oct. 23, 2013-Jan. 26, 2015. "Multiple Modernities pos

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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions 1800810911, 9781800810914

This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with

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Buddhism and Gandhara: An Archaeology of Museum Collections 9781138896819, 9781351252768

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