Material Histories of Time

Material Histories of Time
Author: Gianenrico Bernasconi,Susanne Thürigen
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783110625035

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The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one hand, and research that is concerned with the examination of the cultures and uses of time on the other hand. Material Histories of Time opens a dialogue between these two approaches by taking monumental clocks, table clocks, portable watches, carriage clocks, and other forms of timekeeping as the starting point of a joint reflection of specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time. The contributions range from the apparition of the first timekeeping mechanical systems in the Middle Ages to the first evidence of industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
Author: Ivan Gaskell,Sarah Anne Carter
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780199341764

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"The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History
Author: Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781350105249

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Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and 'object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discussion of both the early modern and modern periods. Writing Material Culture History 2e is an essential tool for students seeking to understand the potential of objects to re-cast established historical narratives in new and exciting ways.

Material history bulletin no 2 Bulletin d histoire de la culture mat rielle no 2

Material history bulletin no  2   Bulletin d histoire de la culture mat  rielle no 2
Author: Robb Watt,Barbara Riley
Publsiher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781772823929

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This volume comprises a selection of papers and reviews concerning material culture. / Ce volume comporte un choix d’articles et de comptes rendus relatifs à la culture matérielle.

A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers

A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Author: Katherine Ellison,Susan Kim
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781351973076

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The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and military history but also played a central role in the emergence of the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation, and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols, polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political, economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual materialities.

The Lives of Objects

The Lives of Objects
Author: Maia Kotrosits
Publsiher: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020
Genre: Church history
ISBN: 9780226707587

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"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"--

Material history bulletin no 1 Bulletin d histoire de la culture mat rielle no 1

Material history bulletin no  1   Bulletin d histoire de la culture mat  rielle no 1
Author: Robb Watt,Barbara Riley
Publsiher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781772823899

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Focusing on historical material culture, this volume offers a variety of both French and English papers and reviews ranging from discussions of Halifax cabinetmakers to ethnographic film, Huron ceramics, and museum curation. / Centré sur la culture matérielle historique, ce volume offre une diversité d’articles et de comptes rendus en français et en anglais, allant des discussions des ébénistes d’Halifax au film ethnographique, aux céramiques des Hurons et à la conservation des musées.

Bibliography for the study of British Columbia s domestic material history

Bibliography for the study of British Columbia s domestic material history
Author: Virginia Careless
Publsiher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781772823912

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A bibliographic reference containing over eight hundred entries pertaining to British Columbia’s late nineteenth-century domestic material history.