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  • Museums and Source Communities

    A Routledge Reader

    Edición de Alison K. Brown, Laura Peers ...
    This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:the museum as field site or 'contact ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Visiting With the Ancestors

    Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

    de Laura Peers, Alison K. Brown ...
    Series series Campus Alberta Collection
    In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Recreating First Contact

    Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture

    Edición de Joshua A. Bell, Alison K. Brown, Robert J. Gordon ...
    Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Narrative Objects

    Museums, the Sakha Summer Festival, and Cultural Revival in Siberia

    de Tatiana Argounova-Low, Alison K. Brown ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars, and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh – the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East – which has been in the collection of the British Museum since 1867. Almost 150 years later, the model was loaned to the ... Leer más

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  • Remembering Utopia

    The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

    Edición de Breda Luthar, Maruša Pušnik ...
    Essays and photos that reveal and reflect on everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, from tourism to television.Research about socialism and communism tends to focus on official aspects of power and dissent and on state politics, and presuppose a powerful state and a party with its official ideology on one side and repressed, manipulated, or collaborating citizens on the other side. This collection ... Leer más

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  • China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market

    de Jiawen Han ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the ... Leer más

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  • Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960

    de Amy Bryzgel ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    This volume presents the first comprehensive academic study of the history and development of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 1960s. Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Frontier Encounters

    Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border

    de Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace, Caroline Humphrey ...
    Frontier Encounters presents a wide range of views on how the borders between these unique countries are enacted, produced, and crossed. It sheds light on global uncertainties: China’s search for energy resources and the employment of its huge population, Russia’s fear of Chinese migration, and the precarious economic independence of Mongolia as its neighbours negotiate to extract its plentiful ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edición de Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Dacha Idylls

    Living Organically in Russia's Countryside

    de Melissa L. Caldwell ...
    Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, Melissa L. Caldwell captures the dacha’s abiding ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • A Story of Ruins

    Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

    de Wu Hung ...
    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ‘ruin culture’ in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions ... Leer más

    $49.19 USD

  • The Art of Cloning

    Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution

    de Pang Laikwan ...
    Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside, China had become a monotonous ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD