Craft and the Kingly Ideal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Craft and the Kingly Ideal write by Mary W. Helms. This book was released on 2013-08-26. Craft and the Kingly Ideal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from? In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from "afar." She argues that fine artisanship and long-distance trade, both of which are more available to powerful elites than to ordinary people, are means of creating or acquiring tangible objects that embody intangible powers and energies from the cosmological realms of gods, ancestors, or heroes. Through the objects, these qualities become available to human society and confer honor and power on their possessors. Helms’ novel approach equates trade with artistry and emphasizes acquisition rather than distribution. She rejects the classic Western separation between economics and aesthetics and offers a new paradigm for understanding traditional societies that will be of interest to all anthropologists and archaeologists.
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages write by Frans Theuws. This book was released on 2001. Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.
Crafting Minoanisation
Crafting Minoanisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting Minoanisation write by Joanne Elizabeth Cutler. This book was released on 2021-10-31. Crafting Minoanisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. By the early Late Bronze Age, Cretan-style discoid loom weights had appeared at a number of settlements across the southern Aegean. In most cases, this represents not only the adoption of a particular type of loom weight, but also the introduction of a new weaving technology: the use of the warp-weighted loom. The evidence for, and the implications of, the adoption of this new technology is examined. Drawing upon recent advances in textile experimental archaeology, the types of textiles that are likely to have been produced at a range of sites both on Crete itself and in the wider southern Aegean are discussed, and the likely nature and scale of textile production at the various settlements is assessed. A consideration of the evidence for the timing and extent of the adoption of Cretan weaving technology in the light of additional evidence for the adoption of other Cretan technologies is used to gain insight into the potential social and economic strategies engaged in by various groups across the southern Aegean, as well as the motivations that may have driven the adoption and adaptation of Cretan cultural traits and accompanying behaviors. By examining how technological skills and techniques are learned and considering possible mechanisms for the transmission of such technical knowledge and know-how, new perspectives can be proposed concerning the processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated abroad.
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 write by Henry Maguire. This book was released on 2004. Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The imperial court in Constantinople is central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the court in its entirety as a phenomenon. These studies provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life in all its interconnected facets.
Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century
Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that complicates conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional, public and private, artistry and industry in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender, artistic labour and creativity in the period. Ultimately, how women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the literary marketplace and related art-industries reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.
