The Lives of Colonial Objects

Author: Annabel Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927322024
Category : Material culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Lives of Colonial Objects is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object from New Zealand's colonial past. Some are treasured family possessions such as a kahu kiwi, a music album or a grandmother's travel diary, and their stories have come down through families. Some, like the tauihu of a Maori waka, a Samoan kilikiti bat or a flying boat, are housed in museums. Others--a cannon, a cottage and a country road--inhabit public spaces but they too turn out to have unexpected histories. Things invite us into the past through their tangible, tactile and immediate presence: in this collection they serve as 50 paths into New Zealand's colonial history.

The Lives in Objects

Author: Jessica Yirush Stern
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent on a transatlantic marketplace. Stern complicates that picture by showing how both the Southeastern Indian and British American actors mixed gift giving and commodity exchange in the deerskin trade, such that Southeastern Indians retained much greater agency as producers and consumers than the standard narrative allows. By tracking the debates about Indian trade regulation, Stern also reveals that the British were often not willing to embrace modern free market values. While she sheds new light on broader issues in native and colonial history, Stern also demonstrates that concepts of labor, commerce, and material culture were inextricably intertwined to present a fresh perspective on trade in the colonial Southeast.

The Lives of Objects

Author: Maia Kotrosits
Publisher: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN: 022670758X
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
"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"--

Treasures in Trusted Hands

Author: Jos van Beurden
Publisher: CLUES no. 3
ISBN: 9789088904394
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone.

Current Industrial Reports

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 12

Book Description

Sensible Objects

Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 184788315X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, touch and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

Colonialism and the Object

Author: T. J. Barringer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415157757
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Drawing together intensive case studies from an international group of scholars, the editors explore the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation.

Entangled Objects

Author: Nicholas Thomas
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674044326
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of establishing reciprocal relations between the West and the indigenous peoples it has colonized for centuries.

British Colonial Realism in Africa

Author: Deborah Shapple Spillman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378013
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance.

Monuments, Objects, Histories

Author: Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023112998X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
This book offers both an insider and outsider perspective, moving from a period that saw the consolidation of western expertise and custodianship of India's "antiquities," to the projection over the twentieth century of varying regional, nativist and national claims around the country's archaeological, architectural and artistic inheritance, into a present time that has pitted these objects and fields within a highly contentious politics of nationhood.