"Objects of Translation" offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book - which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries - challenges existing narratives that cast the period as one of enduring hostility between monolithic 'Hindu' and 'Muslim' cul...(展开全部)

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active participants in and mediators of our relationships, as well as tokens of affection, symbols of virility, triggers of nostalgia, replacements for lost loved ones, and symbols of lost places...(展开全部)

Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary—rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In...(展开全部)

Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life. Along the way, he raises doubts about any s...(展开全部)

Drawing on his work on contemporary postcolonial Pacific societies, Nicholas Thomas takes up three issues central to anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions (such as the gift and the commodity), and the significance of material objects in social life. Along the way, he raises doubts about any s...(展开全部)

古列维奇是享誉国际史坛的苏联中世纪学专家，本书则是他驰誉欧美的名作，在西方史坛占有不可取代的地位。

古列维奇是享誉国际史坛的苏联中世纪学专家，本书则是他驰誉欧美的名作，在西方史坛占有不可取代的地位。

Drawing on a range of examples from Western and developing cultures, this book offers a re-reading of the contemporary society as the product of both individual and collective identity and behaviour. Marxist interpretations of the expansion in the range and number of material goods have tended to view people as estranged from the objects they produce, while massive consumption ...(展开全部)

Drawing on a range of examples from Western and developing cultures, this book offers a re-reading of the contemporary society as the product of both individual and collective identity and behaviour. Marxist interpretations of the expansion in the range and number of material goods have tended to view people as estranged from the objects they produce, while massive consumption ...(展开全部)

迈克尔・卡米尔（Michael Camille,1958-2002），芝加哥大学艺术史教授，于剑桥大学获得博士学位，其后一直在芝加哥大学任教。他是中世纪艺术研究方面的权威，其主要著作有《中世纪的偶像：中世纪艺术中的意识形态和造像》、《边缘上的肖像：中世纪艺术的起源》、《逝去的大师：皮埃尔・雷米特的无生命的艺术》、《饰画人》、《中世纪艺术：幻想与中世纪的启示录》。 译者简介： 刘日明，男，1968年生，江西遂川人。1992年9月考入华东师范大学哲学系，1995年6月获哲学硕士学位；2000年9月考入复旦大学哲学系，2003年6月获哲学博士学位。现为同济大学哲学与社会学系副教授、当代马克思主义哲学研究所副所长、外国哲学专业硕士生导师。主要研究领域为西方政治学与法哲学、西方马克思主义。在《学术季刊》、《人文杂志》、《天津社会科学》、《学术研究》等杂志发表论...(展开全部)