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Author :Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Publisher :Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University by : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Download or read book Masterpieces of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and published by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unpretentious catalog, issued for the Peabody's "masterpieces" exhibit of 1978, presents some of the best-known artifacts of the museum, along with brief explanations of each piece's significance, heritage, and meaning. Contributors include Marie Jeanne Adams, Jeffrey P. Brain, J. O. Brew, Wilburt K. Carter, Kwang-chih Chang, Clemency C. Coggins, Carleton S. Coon, Ian Graham, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Peter Wells, and others.
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of Eloquence by : Mayo Williamson Hazeltine
Download or read book Masterpieces of Eloquence written by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anthropological Resources by : Lee S. Dutton
Download or read book Anthropological Resources written by Lee S. Dutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archives), Elizabeth Edwards and Veronica Lawrence (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Francisco Demetrio, S.J. (Museum and Archives, Xavier University, Philippines) and many others. The guide covers selected documentation in social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and folklore. Some major area studies collections (such as the Asia Collections, Cornell University Libraries, and the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego) are also represented. Web URLs have been cited when available and personal, and ethnic name indexes are provided.
Book Synopsis Souvenirs of the Fur Trade by : Mary Malloy
Download or read book Souvenirs of the Fur Trade written by Mary Malloy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American mariners made more than 175 voyages to the Northwest Coast during the half-century after 1787. The art and culture of Northwest Coast Indians so intrigued American sailors that the collecting of ethnographic artifacts became an important secondary trade. Malloy has brought details about these early collections together for the first time.
Book Synopsis Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Robert Goldwater Library
Download or read book Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Robert Goldwater Library and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rare Art Traditions by : Joseph Alsop
Download or read book The Rare Art Traditions written by Joseph Alsop and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.
Author :Abraham Arias-Larreta Publisher :[Kansas City, Miss.] : Editorial Indoamerica, Library of the New World ISBN 13 : Total Pages :170 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis Pre-Columbian Masterpieces by : Abraham Arias-Larreta
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Masterpieces written by Abraham Arias-Larreta and published by [Kansas City, Miss.] : Editorial Indoamerica, Library of the New World. This book was released on 1967 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Download or read book Report of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tatiana Proskouriakoff by : Char Solomon
Download or read book Tatiana Proskouriakoff written by Char Solomon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the archeologist and artist, covering her archeological expeditions to study the Mayas.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Book Synopsis Cenote of Sacrifice by : Clemency Chase Coggins
Download or read book Cenote of Sacrifice written by Clemency Chase Coggins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chichén Itzá ("mouth of the well of the Itza") was one of the great centers of civilization in prehistoric America, serving between the eighth and twelfth centuries A.D. as a religious, economic, social, and political capital on the Yucatán Peninsula. Within the ancient city there were many natural wells or cenotes. One, within the ceremonial heart of the city, is an impressive natural feature with vertical limestone walls enclosing a deep pool of jade green water some eighty feet below ground level. This cenote, which gave the city its name, became a sacred shrine of Maya pilgrimage, described by one post-Conquest observer as similar to Jerusalem and Rome. Here, during the city's ascendancy and for centuries after its decline, the peoples of Yucatán consulted their gods and made ritual offerings of precious objects and living victims who were thought to receive prophecies. Although the well was described by Bishop Diego de Landa in the late sixteenth century, its contents were not known until the early 1900s when revealed by the work of Edward H. Thompson. Conducting excavations for the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Thompson recovered almost thirty thousand artifacts, most ceremonially broken and many beautifully preserved by burial in the deep silt at the bottom of the well. The materials were sent to the Peabody Museum, where they remained, unexhibited, for over seventy years. In 1984, for the first time, nearly three hundred objects of gold, jade, copper, pottery, wood, copal, textile, and other materials from the collection were gathered into a traveling interpretive exhibition. No other archaeological exhibition had previously given this glimpse into Maya ritual life because no other collection had objects such as those found in the Sacred Cenote. Moreover, the objects from the Cenote come from throughout Mesoamerica and lower Central America, representing many artistic traditions. The exhibit and this, its accompanying catalog, marked the first time all of the different kinds of offerings have ever been displayed together, and the first time many have been published. Essays by Gordon R. Willey and Linnea H. Wren place the Cenote of Sacrifice and the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá within the larger context of Maya archaeology and history. The catalog entries, written by Clemency Chase Coggins, describe the objects displayed in the traveling exhibition. Some entries are brief descriptive statements; others develop short scholarly themes bearing on the function and interpretation of specific objects. Coggins' introductory essay describes how the objects were collected by Thompson and how the exhibition collection has been studied to reveal the periods of Cenote ritual and the changing practices of offering to the Sacred Cenote.
Download or read book Pacific Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities of Words written by Stanley Cavell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves. This book offers philosophy in the key of life. Beginning with a rereading of Emerson's "Self-Reliance," Cavell traces the idea of perfectionism through works by Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Rawls, and by such artists as Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and Shakespeare. Cities of Words shows that this ever-evolving idea, brought to dramatic life in movies such as It Happened One Night, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lady Eve, has the power to reorient the perception of Western philosophy.
Book Synopsis Photography and American Coloniality by : Raoul J. Granqvist
Download or read book Photography and American Coloniality written by Raoul J. Granqvist and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon’s career as war photographer-correspondent and staff photographer for LIFE, filmmaker, author, artist, and collector of “primitive art” and sculpture. It focuses on three areas: Elisofon’s narcissism, voyeurism, and sexism; his involvement in the homogenizing of Western social orders and colonial legacies; and his enthused mission of “sending home” a mass of still-life photographs, annexed African artifacts, and assumed vintage knowledge. The book does not challenge his artistic merit or his fascinating personality; what it does question is his production and imagining of “difference.” As the text travels from World War II to colonialism, postcolonialism, and the Cold War, from Casablanca to Leopoldville (Kinshasa), it proves to be a necessarily strenuous and provocative trip.
Book Synopsis Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors by : Maija M. Lutz
Download or read book Hunters, Carvers, and Collectors written by Maija M. Lutz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, Chauncey C. Nash started collecting Inuit carvings just as the art of printmaking was introduced in Kinngait (Cape Dorset). His collection of early Inuit sculpture and prints represents a vibrant period in contemporary Inuit art. Drawing from ethnology, archaeology, art history, and cultural studies, Lutz tells the collection’s story.
Author :Library of Congress. Copyright Office Publisher :Copyright Office, Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1510 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Semitic Museum of Harvard University by : Harvard University
Download or read book The Semitic Museum of Harvard University written by Harvard University and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
