Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh...(展开全部)

Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change. Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh...(展开全部)

The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai’s well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China. The essays in this book look at objects as “things-in-motion,” a status that brings attention to the history of transmissions ensuing after the time and conditions of their production. How d...(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)

This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic review of imperial encounters between Europeans (including the Portuguese, French, ...(展开全部)

Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis....(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on world civilization is almost incalculable, and in exploring this rich heritage, nineteen leading scholars range from...(展开全部)