Objects in Context, Objects in Use
Title | Objects in Context, Objects in Use PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Lavan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 2008-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 904743305X |
This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays which provide an overview of relevant literature, along with discussions of the nature of the sources, of relevant approaches and field methods. The main section of the book explores domestic space, vessels in context, dress, shops and workshops, religious space, and military space. Synthetic papers drawing on a wide range of archaeological, art-historical and textual sources are complemented by case-studies of context-rich late antique sites in the East Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Pella, Dura-Europos, Scythopolis, and Sagalassos.
The Lives of Objects
Title | The Lives of Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Maia Kotrosits |
Publisher | Class 200: New Studies in Religion |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Church history |
ISBN | 022670758X |
"Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--
The Power of Touch
Title | The Power of Touch PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Pye |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2016-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131541743X |
Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in conjunction with sight. Why, then, does it play so small a role in the study and enjoyment of museum objects? Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.
The Objects of Thought
Title | The Objects of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Crane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199682747 |
Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that to understand thought's representational power ('intentionality') we need to understand the representation of the non-existent.
Objects in Context, Objects in Use
Title | Objects in Context, Objects in Use PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Lavan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture, Ancient |
ISBN |
This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several bibliographic essays.
Learning Objects
Title | Learning Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Harman |
Publisher | Informing Science |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 8392233751 |
Learning Objects
Title | Learning Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Koohang |
Publisher | Informing Science |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 839223376X |