Collecting East and West / edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana Turpin.
If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. ""East"" and ""West"", or ""North"" and ""South&qu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2013.
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| Summary: | If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. ""East"" and ""West"", or ""North"" and ""South"", for that matter, are of course entirely relative to one's particular geographical position. Therefore, it is interesting that collecting exotic objects is an endeavour that unites humanity over millennia and round the globe. The ancient Assyrians did so as assiduously as ei .. |
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| Item Description: | Papers based on conference held in Florence in June, 2009. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xli, 210 pages .) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443852593 1443852597 1299974295 9781299974296 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |