The Material Culture of the Marquesas Islands
Author: Ralph Linton
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Ralph Linton
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 264
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 211
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: TE RANGI HIROA
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 418
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Henry Buck
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerd Koch
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Fleming
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1135013721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader material culture, in which the boundaries between religious traditions were sometimes more fluid than canonical literature might suggest. This volume brings together specialists in a variety of Asian cultures to discuss the methodological challenges involved in integrating material evidence for the reconstruction of the religious histories of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. By means of specific ‘test cases,’ the volume explores the importance of considering material and literary evidence in concert. What untold stories do these sources help us to recover? How might they push us to reevaluate historical narratives traditionally told from literary sources? By addressing these questions from the perspectives of different subfields and religious traditions, contributors map out the challenges involved in interpreting different types of data, assessing the problems of interpretation distinct to specific types of material evidence (e.g., coins, temple art, manuscripts, donative inscriptions) and considering the issues raised by the different patterns in the preservation of such evidence in different locales. Special attention is paid to newly-discovered and neglected sources; to our evidence for trade, migration, and inter-regional cultural exchange; and to geographical locales that served as "contact zones" connecting cultures. In addition, the chapters in this volume represent the rich range of religious traditions across Asia – including Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Chinese religions, as well as Islam and eastern Christianities.
Author: Lu Ann De Cunzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 110865987X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaterial culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, and museum studies. Written by leading international scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of developments, methodologies and theories. It is divided into five broad themes, embracing both classic and emerging areas of research in the field. Chapters outline transformative moments in material culture scholarship, and present research from around the world, focusing on multiple material and digital media that show the scope and breadth of this exciting field. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in material culture.
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 0199218714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture, and the place of materiality in social theory, presenting current thinking about material culture from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies.
Author: Victor Buchli
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780415336420
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Author: Eric Kjellgren
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1588391469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The imagery of Marquesan art is testament to the myriad beings and creatures who inhabited the Marquesan universe - gods, ancestors, humans, lizards, turtles, fish - and to the islands' complex social and political organization. These art forms are explored in the present volume, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art."--BOOK JACKET.