1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996379039703316

Autore

Michel Cécile

Titolo

Fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China / / edited by: Cécile Michel and Michael Friedrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-071433-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 338 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in manuscript cultures ; ; 20

Disciplina

089.3

Soggetti

Forgery of manuscripts

Forgery of antiquities

Literary forgeries and mystifications

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts: An Introduction -- Part I: From Copies to Forgeries -- Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day -- How Writing Came about in Glozel, France -- Venerable Copies: The Afterlife of a Fragment of a Letter by Wang Xizhi (303–361) -- Fakes and Islamic Manuscripts -- Part II: Forgers and Their Motives -- Fake Ancient Roman Inscriptions and the Case of Wolfgang Lazius (1514–1565) -- Michel Fourmont and His Forgeries -- Sicilian Sweets. The Fanciful Frauds of Wily Father Vella -- Et tout le reste est littérature, or: Abraham Firkowicz, the Writer with a Chisel -- Supplement: The Forgery of Colophons and Ownership of Hebrew Codices and Scrolls by Abraham Firkowicz -- Part III: Identifying Fakes -- La invención del Sacromonte: How and Why Scholars Debated about the Lead Books of Granada for Two Hundred Years -- Identifying Fakes: Three Case Studies with Examples from Different Types of Written Artefacts -- Detection of Fakes: The Merits and Limits of Non-Invasive Materials Analysis -- Producing and Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Manuscripts -- Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancient: from copies, replicas and imitations to fakes and forgeries. Fakes are often a response to a demand from the public or scholarly milieu, or even both. The motives behind their production may be economic, political, religious or personal – aspiring to fame or simply playing a joke. Fakes may be revealed by combining the study of their contents, codicological, epigraphic and palaeographic analyses, and scientific investigations. However, certain famous unsolved cases still continue to defy technology today, no matter how advanced it is. Nowadays, one can find fakes in museums and private collections alike; they abound on the antique market, mixed with real artefacts that have often been looted. The scientific community’s attitude to such objects calls for ethical reflection.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910734873803321

Autore

Jukes Scott

Titolo

Learning to Confront Ecological Precarity : Engaging with More-than-human Worlds / / by Scott Jukes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031342004

3031342003

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, , 2214-4226 ; ; 13

Disciplina

371.384

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching

Environmental education

Outdoor education

Science Education

Environmental and Sustainability Education

Outdoor Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Precarious times -- 1 – Introduction: Provocations and intent -- 2 – Connecting with lines of flight: Reviewing texts of influence -- 3 – Philosophical~methodological processes: Immanent Praxiography -- 4 – Acknowledging more-than-human worlds: Places, stories and outdoor environmental education as a co-production -- 5 – Engaging with more-than-human stories: The expressive power of landscape -- 6 – Confronting ecological precarity: Thinking with a landscape as a pedagogy for engaging with environmental issues -- 7 – Remake activities and waste education in outdoor education: Exploring the ecological history of things -- 8 – Emergent pedagogical pathways: Learning from the fluxes and flows of a riverscape -- 9 – Environmental learning in the thick of relations: The mediating influence of technology and movement -- 10 – Storying shared worlds: Collaborative writing as ecological inquiry -- 11 – Bookend: Outdoor environmental education in precarious times.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents innovative approaches for confronting environmental issues and socio-ecological inequality within Outdoor Environmental Education (OEE). Through experimentation with alternative pedagogical possibilities, it explores what OEE can do in response to ecological precarity. Drawing upon posthumanist theory, it focuses on the enactment of more-than-human pedagogies that foster affirmative environmental relationships while challenging problematic cultural perspectives. The 12 chapters explore various topics, including place-responsive pedagogies, environmental stories, new materialist theoretical insights and waste education practices, engaging with complex environmental issues such as species extinction and climate change in the context of OEE. This book provides practical examples and conceptual creativity to extend contemporary theoretical currents. It offers innovative pedagogical strategies and methodological insights for OEE. Researchers, students, and practitioners of OEE interested in applying posthumanist ideas to their work will find this volume most interesting. .