The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture 022663261X, 9780226632612

The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture 022663261X, 9780226632612

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

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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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The Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History

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Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning 9780857854025, 9781859739907, 9781859739952, 9781474263399

Beads have been used since antiquity, not only to dress the body, but as measures of value in economic and ritual exchan

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Architectural Representation in Medieval Textual and Material Culture 9781802700008, 9781802700763

Exploring architectural remnants of the past—from castles and cathedrals to village churches—and the work of writers, il

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Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario 9780773580657

A nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.

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Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice 9781032223872, 9781032252575, 9781003282334

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material cultu

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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture 9781526115997

This book explores the voices of nonhuman things in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture, making a valuable contr

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Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and their Influence on Material Culture 9783700187981

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Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia 9789048519866

New insights into the world routes travelled by seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, as well as the rise of Asian i

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