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Author : Janet Hoskins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136678573
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Janet Hoskins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415920117
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objectsis an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.
Author : Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Publisher : Menil Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780300250879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Object Biographies written by Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) and published by Menil Foundation. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects--a Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among them--in the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly aboutarchaeology, art history, and collecting practices. They take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste to bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or a conceptual limbo. Essays on related groups or single objects introduce fresh frameworks to engage with the multilayered history these objects represent. The eight object biographies on ancient artifacts in the Menil are the first in-depth studies published on the collection. Essays by seven university professors probe works in their areas of expertise, while those by seven curators lay bare one object biography; frame provenance studies at the San Antonio Museum of Art, Getty Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and survey war's effect on ancient works. The editors' introduction and an epilogue responding to the other 13 texts review theoretical and practical issues in the study of artifacts lacking archaeological findspots (provenience). Recommended for programs and libraries in museum studies, archaeology, and art history; art and heritage law programs; and readers fascinated by cold-case detective work on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. Distributed for the Menil Collection
Author : Christian Forstner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030485099
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Biographies in the History of Physics written by Christian Forstner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the biographical approach in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, institutions, and concepts. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, institutions or concepts? The respective chapters of this book discuss these controversial questions using examples from the history of physics. By approaching biography as metaphor, it transcends the boundaries between various perspectives on the history of physics, and enriches our grasp of the past.
Author : Kate Hill
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184383961X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Museums and Biographies written by Kate Hill and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, this collection of essays examines examples from the early 19th century to the present day.
Author : Roberta J. M. Olson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405139557
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy written by Roberta J. M. Olson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the ‘social lives’ of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes’ jewellery, to miraculous painted images. Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons. Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of approaches.
Author : Angel Daza
Publisher : Založba ZRC
ISBN 13 : 961050812X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022 written by Angel Daza and published by Založba ZRC. This book was released on 2024 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zbornik je končni izbor prispevkov, predstavljenih na delavnici Biografski podatki v digitalnem svetu 2022 (Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022), ki je potekala v okviru konference Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022), vodilne serije konferenc na področju digitalne humanistike, od 25. do 29. julija 2022 v Tokiu; delavnica je bila 25. Prispevki na konferenci in v zborniku pokrivajo tri teme: analiza omrežij in semantični splet; iskanje in priprava biografskih podatkov za raziskave ter primeri uporabe in napredni načini dela z biografijami in biografskimi podatki.
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452398
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Chinese Objects written by Louise Tythacott and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
Author : Elizabeth Wood
Publisher : Left Coast Press
ISBN 13 : 1611326524
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Objects of Experience written by Elizabeth Wood and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor experiences? In this book, Elizabeth Wood and Kiersten Latham present the Object Knowledge Framework, a tool for using objects to connect museum visitors to themselves, to others, and to their world. They discuss the key concepts underpinning our lived experience of objects and how museums can learn from them. Then they walk readers through concrete methods for transforming visitor-object experiences, including exercises and strategies for teams developing exhibit themes, messages, and content, and participatory experiences.
Author : John Goodwin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446275922
Total Pages : 1521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)
Download or read book SAGE Biographical Research written by John Goodwin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give ′voice′ to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology, education, health, criminology, social gerontology, epidemiology, management and organizational research) that illustrate the full range of debates, methods and techniques that can be combined under the heading ′biographical research′. Volume One: Biographical Research: Starting Points, Debates and Approaches explores the different biographical methods currently used while locating these within the history of social science methods. Volume Two: Biographical Interviews, Oral Histories and Life Narratives focuses on the more established, interview-based, biographical research methods and considers the analytical strategies used for interview-based biographical research Volume Three: Forms of Life Writing: Letters, Diaries and Auto/Biography considers the value of ′data′ contained within letters, diaries and auto/biography and illustrates how this data has been analyzed to reveal biographies and their social context. Volume Four: Other Documents of Life: Photographs, Cyber Documents and Ephemera focuses on the ′other′ human documents and objects, like photographs, cyber-documents (emails, blogs, social networking sites, webpages) and other ephemera (such as official documents) that are used extensively in biographical research.
Author : Hans Peter Hahn
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782970843
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things written by Hans Peter Hahn and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upon closer examination. Objects are in perpetual flux, leaving visible traces of their age, usage, and previous life. While travelling through time, objects also circulate through space, and their spatial mobility alters their meaning and use with respect to new cultural horizons. As objects transform through time and space, so does the value attributed to them. Mapping out itineraries of value in the realm of the material, allows us to grasp the nature of a given social formation through the shape and meaning taken on by its valued 'stuff'. It also provides insights into the nature of materiality, through the value ascribed to objects at a given point in time and space. This edited volume brings together studies of material culture, materiality and value, with regard to the mobility of objects, with the aim of tracing the ways in which societies constitute their valued objects and how the realm of the material reflects upon society.
Author : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019885403X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Generations written by Alexandra Walsham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations injects fresh energy into tired debates about England's plural and protracted Reformations by adopting the fertile concept of generation as its analytical framework. It demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries not merely transformed the generations that experienced them, but were also forged and created by them. The book investigates how age and ancestry were implicated in the theological and cultural upheavals of the era and how these, in turn, reconfigured the relationship between memory, history, and time. It explores the manifold ways in which the Reformations shaped the horizontal relationships that early modern people formed with their siblings, kin, and peers, as well as the vertical ones that tied them to their dead ancestors and their future heirs. Generations highlights the vital part that families bound by blood and by faith played in shaping these events, as well as in mediating our knowledge of the religious past and in the making of its archive. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it provides poignant glimpses into how people navigated the profound challenges that the English Reformations posed in everyday life.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004501908
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores multiple artefactual, visual, textual and conceptual adaptations, developments and exchanges across the medieval world in the context of their contemporary and subsequent re-appropriations.
Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019269412X
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Confronting Colonial Objects written by Carsten Stahn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns while outlining the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks that enabled colonial collecting. The book demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in facilitating colonial injustices and mobilizing resistance thereto. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, Stahn develops principles of relational cultural justice. He challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time and outlines how future engagement requires a re-invention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, and partnership, and a re-thinking of the role of museums themselves. Following the life story and transformation of cultural objects, this book provides a fresh perspective on international law and colonial history that appeals to audiences across a variety of disciplines. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Author : Iain Ferris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144561586X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Roman Britain Through its Objects written by Iain Ferris and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history of Roman Britain
Author : Mark Griffin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306818930
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book A Hundred or More Hidden Things written by Mark Griffin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his films would be an understatement. As Mark Griffin persuasively demonstrates in this definitive biography of the Academy Award–winning director, Minnelli was not only building a remarkable Hollywood legacy, but also creating an intriguing autobiography in code. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with such icons as Kirk Douglas, Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, and George Hamilton, Griffin turns the spotlight on the enigmatic “elegant director,” revealing long-kept secrets at the heart of Minnelli’s genius.
Author : Maggie O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131791550X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Advances in Biographical Methods written by Maggie O'Neill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a ‘life story’ and personal documents (e.g. diaries), to encompass (more routinely) autobiographical secondary and archival research and analysis - as well as multi-media, arts based creative multi-sensory methods. Biographical Research and practices as part of human understanding helps people to make sense of what has been and what is happening in their lives, cultures, communities and societies. Advances in Biographical Methods: Creative Applications takes up these themes: theorising, doing and applying current advances in biographical methods. It demonstrates the momentum with which they areas are developing as a field of scholarship, especially in relation to creative innovations and applications, such as in new forms of interview and other practices, and debates on its interlinking with art, performance and digital methods.
