Title & Author:

World antiquarianism : comparative perspectives / edited by Alain Schnapp ; with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Peter N. Miller, and Tim Murray.

Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, [2013]
©2013

Description:

vii, 455 pages : illustrations (some colored), maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Issues & Debates

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the roots of antiquarianism / Alain Schnapp -- Antiquarianism of and in preliterate societies: colonial and post-colonial contexts / Tim Murray -- Antiquarianism in East Asia: a preliminary overview / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- A tentative morphology of European antiquarianism, 1500-2000 / Peter N. Miller -- Virtual archives: an ethnographic perspective on their creation and transmission / Susanne Küchler -- Mesopotamian antiquarianism from Sumer to Babylon / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- Antiquarianism in Egypt: the importance of Re / Willeke Wendrich -- Conservation of objects and monuments and the sense of the past during the Greco-Roman era / Alain Schnapp -- Antiquarianism in Roman Sardis / Felipe Rojas -- Early Abbasid antiquarianism: Al-Ma'mūn and the pyramid of Cheops / Michael Cooperson -- Ouyang Xiu's conceptual collection of antiquity / Yun-Chiahn C. Sena -- Antiquaries and politics: antiquarian culture of the northern Song, 960-1127 / Ya-Hwei Hsu -- The medieval and early modern world and the material past / Hans-Rudolf Meier -- Echos of a glorious past: Mexica antiquarianism / Leonardo López Luján -- The Renaissance foundations of European antiquarianism / William Stenhouse -- Antiquarian transformations in eighteenth-century Europe / Giovanna Ceserani -- The scholar and the unicorn: antiquarians, eccentrics, and connoisseurs in eighteenth-century Japan / François Lachaud -- Traces of the ancients in India: notes on two possible narratives / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Antiquarianism in a time of crisis: on the collecting practices of late-Qing government officials, 1861-1911 / Qianshen Bai -- Ninagawa Noritane and antiquarians in the early Meiji period / Hiroyuki Suzuki / Living antiquarianism in India / Nayanjot Lahiri.

Summary:

The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past-an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of archaeology. Antiquarian activities result in the elaboration of particular social behaviors and the production of tools for exploring the collective memory. This book is the first to compare antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment of the human mind and open new avenues for understanding the representation of the past, from ancient societies to the present.

ISBN:

9781606061480 (paperback)
1606061488 (paperback)

Subject:

Antiquarians History.
Material culture.
Archaeology and history.
Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne Histoire.
Culture matérielle.
Archéologie et histoire.
material culture (discipline)
historical archaeology.
Antiquarians.
Antikensammlung.
Sachkultur

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Schnapp, Alain, 1946- editor.
Falkenhausen, Lothar von, editor.
Miller, Peter N., 1964- editor.
Murray, Tim, 1955- editor.
Issues & debates.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285687
Call No.: BIB 225524
Status: Available