1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910245739803321

Autore

Eakins Patricia

Titolo

Les Affamées et autres nouvelles / / Patricia Eakins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Grenoble, : UGA Éditions, 2016

ISBN

2-84310-381-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VioliPaul

Soggetti

Poetry

nouvelles

littérature américaine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Patricia Eakins est un oiseau rare de la littérature américaine contemporaine. Dans ce recueil, elle révise à sa manière la forme du conte populaire, mythologique, scientifique ou ethnographique, pour donner des récits hybrides, déroutants, d'un enchantement étrange. Ses nouvelles dépassent le constat nostalgique d'un passé perdu et proposent une mythologie subversive, d'une grande créativité linguistique. Qu'elle revisite le conte médiéval japonais ou le conte tibétain, le conte fantastique à la manière de Rabelais ou celui des Lumières du xviiie siècle français, le conte persan ou le conte inuit, la fable écologique ou le conte d'Hansel et Gretel, le récit de l'enfant sauvage du Far West ou le conte africain, elle sait nous maintenir en haleine, et nous surprendre autant que nous ravir. Ses Affamées donnent faim d'un sens nouveau. Avides et gravides, elles restent à notre mémoire longtemps après la lecture.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786633303321

Titolo

Wrapping and unwrapping material culture : archaeological and anthropological perspectives / / edited by Susanna Harris, Laurence Douny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41563-1

1-315-41564-X

1-315-41565-8

1-61132-889-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London ; ; 64

Classificazione

SOC003000SOC002010

Altri autori (Persone)

DounyLaurence <1977->

HarrisSusanna

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Wrapping cloths

Material culture

Textile fabrics

Textile fabrics, Ancient

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Wrapping and Unwrapping, Concepts and Approaches - Laurence Douny and Susanna Harris; Part II: Wrapping and Unwrapping the Living; Chapter 2. Aspects of Baby Wrappings: Swaddling, Carrying, and Wearing - Nancy Ukai Russell; Chapter 3. Wrapping and Tying Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Dresses - Janet M. Johnstone; Chapter 4. Reconceptualising Shapes and Bodies: Conservation of an English Eighteenth-Century Court Mantua for the Victoria and Albert Museum Galleries - Titika Malkogeorgou

Chapter 5. Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body: Lace, Magic, and Modernity - Nicolette MakovickyPart III: Wrapping and Unwrapping the Dead; Chapter 6. Wrapping the Dead: The Bronze Age Mound Burials of



Southern Scandinavia through a Wrapping Analysis - Susanna Harris; Chapter 7. Wrapped Up for Safe Keeping: 'Wrapping' Customs in Early Iron Age Europe - Margarita Gleba; Chapter 8. Wrapping as an Element of Early Celtic Burial Customs: The Princely Grave from Hochdorf and Its Cultural Context - Johanna Banck-Burgess

Chapter 9. Wrapping the Wrapped: The Development of Minimal Conservation of Ancient Human Wrapped Mummies from the Region of the Nile - Barbara WillsPart IV: The Materiality of Wrapping: Materials, Places, and Objects; Chapter 10. Wild Silk Textiles of the Dogon People of Mali: Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Identities - Laurence Douny; Chapter 11. Unveiling Clay and Metal: The Context and Use of Mespotamian Textile Wrappings - Agnes Garcia-Ventura and Mireia Lopez-Bertran

Chapter 12. Wrapped in Images: Body Metaphors, Petroglyphs, and Landscapes in the Island World of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Karina Croucher and Colin RichardsIndex; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

"This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, baby swaddling, and contemporary African textiles, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. These context specific, cultural, and technical acts offer a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810352603321

Autore

Alberti Samuel J. M. M.

Titolo

Nature and culture : objects, disciplines, and the Manchester Museum / / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-5261-2954-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

069.0942733

Soggetti

Museums - Collection management - England - Manchester - History

Museums - History - 20th century

Museums - Collection management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-227) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology.