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Title: Values and Revaluations
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Transformation and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Author: Dirk Wicke
Contributor: Dirk Wicke (Edited by), Anja Klöckner (Edited by), Hans Peter Hahn (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1789258138
EAN: 9781789258134
ISBN: 9781789258134
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Genre: History
Release Date: 15/03/2022
Description: Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood.

The case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questions. However, for all contributions there are some common basic assumptions. One of these concerns the understanding that it is rarely the value of the material itself that matters for high valuation, but rather the appreciation of the (assumed or constructed) origin of certain objects or their connection with certain social structures. A second of these shared insights addresses the ubiquity of phenomena of 'value in things'. There is no society without valued objects. As a rule, valuation is something negotiated or even disputed. Value arises through social action, whereby it is always necessary to ask anew which actors are interested in the value of certain objects (or in their appreciation). This also works the other way round: Who are those actors who question corresponding objective values and why?
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 170mm
Release Year: 2022

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