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  • Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam

    de Graeme Were ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam.Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and stakeholders, and analyses of museum exhibitions, the book explores how museums help ordinary people overcome loss suffered during conflict. Focusing ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Extreme Collecting

    Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums

    Edición de Graeme Were, J. C. H. King ...
    By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult’ objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly ... Leer más

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  • How Materials Matter

    Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

    de Graeme Were ...
    How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of ... Leer más

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  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Leer más

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  • The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience

    Edición de Susan Kuchler, Graeme Were ...
    The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and post-colonial Pacific contexts. By challenging readers to reconsider the very nature of the materiality of clothing, the editors productively situate this volume at the intersection of a number of ongoing interdisciplinary projects that are ... Leer más

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    Past, Present and Future

    Edición de Monica Janowski, Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is ... Leer más

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  • Natural Enemies

    People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective

    Edición de John Knight ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elicit a range of human responses. Wildlife pests are frequently demonized and resisted by local communities while routinely 'controlled' by state authorities. However, to the great concern of conservationists, the history of many people-wildlife ... Leer más

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  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Leer más

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  • Landscapes

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    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
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  • Weathered

    Cultures of Climate

    de Mike Hulme ...
    Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself ... Leer más

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  • The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

    Shaping Your Landscape

    Edición de Robert Layton, Peter Ucko ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
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  • Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies

    Edición de Garry Marvin, Susan McHugh ...
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    Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what ... Leer más

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