This book, despite its small size, includes between its covers a complete set of pictures of ancient instruments found in inscriptions or found in excavations, colored and uncoloured, and pictures of male and female players playing them.
Seit einiger Zeit werden Karten als hybride Ordnung von Wissen in den Kontext der bildlichen wie auch schriftlichen Überlieferung ihrer Zeit gestellt und als Visualisierung, Konstitution und Aneignung von Raum erschlossen.
Highland Superstitions and Seers records the enduring beliefs, omens, and visions that shaped Highland life: from charms and second sight to the signs read in storms, dreams, and the flight of birds.
The purposeful production, exchange, and consumption of alcohol, like all human endeavour, is always a matter of time and temporality - and ranges from the universality of Einsteinian space-time relativity through to species-specific nature times and the myriad of anthropocentric constructs of nature time and of social times/temporalities.
A Twist in the Tailtakes readers on a tantalising voyage through European and American gastronomic history, following the trail of a small but mighty fish: the anchovy.
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.
Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems.
Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity.
Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specificity, cultural conquest, and cultural hybridisation over millennia.
El presente texto abarca la historia del cacao y el chocolate en la actual Colombia, con la finalidad de reconocer su impacto entre personas de todas las condiciones sociales y económicas; el objetivo general para la presente investigación es: Analizar la historia del suministro y consumo del cacao y el chocolate en el territorio de la actual Colombia, para examinar las problemáticas y costumbres que se dieron en torno a este alimento entre los diferentes sectores sociales.
From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced.
Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, ich freue mich, Ihnen nach nunmehr zwei Jahren der Recherche und Vorarbeit mein neues Buch über die japanische Handwerkskunst vorstellen zu können.
This anthology of essays, a companion to Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, Volume I, aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world.
This student-friendly text provides a comprehensive exploration of the methods and approaches employed within design scholarship, drawing upon influences from history, art history, anthropology and interdisciplinary studies such as science and technology studies and material culture studies.
Cette suite de brefs essais nous incite à voir plus clairement à travers les images que la société fait miroiter devant nos yeux pour attiser et formater nos désirs.
This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China's socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message.
This early work Arthur Robinson Wright was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.
This student-friendly text provides a comprehensive exploration of the methods and approaches employed within design scholarship, drawing upon influences from history, art history, anthropology and interdisciplinary studies such as science and technology studies and material culture studies.
El origen de las especias nos narra el camino transitado por las especias, y cómo fue que en algún momento de la historia, por ejemplo, la canela era más valiosa que el oro, o la nuez moscada, en la cantidad correcta, podía ser intercambiada por una isla.
This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic and personality figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology, focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.
Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm.
Cet ouvrage examine le parcours et le résultat du processus de christianisation des arts traditionnels béti à leur rencontre avec le christianisme catholique arrivant.
