Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things: shifting contexts of material culture through time and space 1782970843, 9781782970842

Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things: shifting contexts of material culture through time and space 1782970843, 9781782970842

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are

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Gambling, Space, and Time : Shifting Boundaries and Cultures 9780874178678, 9780874178531

The eight essays in Gambling, Space, and Time use a global and interdisciplinary approach to examine two significant are

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Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change (Material Culture of Art and Design) 1350259039, 9781350259034

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appear

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Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community 9781501765551

Diaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansion—a Shenzhen former emigrant community—and its members�

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Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania 9780824860141

This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of in

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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil 9780520966932

This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil

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Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs 9781350084254, 9781003085300

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multi

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Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning [1 ed.] 9783737011686, 9783847111689

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Tales of Space and Time

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The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture 9780226632759

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronologic

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