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Intro
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Part I: Values and value
1. Introduction to Part I: Values and value: some approaches to the concept of 'values in things'
2. Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani-middle Assyrian transition in material culture
3. Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands
4. Objects with (a) history: observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes
5. The value of things: textiles in the Iron Age
6. Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism
7. The gift as an open question
Part II: Re-evaluations
8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations
9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE
10. Beyond the bones: relics in Greek temples
11. The 'Altar of the Emperors' from Carnuntum
12. How do materials matter?
13. From antiquities to art: why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp?
14. When secondary is primary: on Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation.
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Part I: Values and value
1. Introduction to Part I: Values and value: some approaches to the concept of 'values in things'
2. Learning new styles, quickly: an examination of the Mittani-middle Assyrian transition in material culture
3. Changing exchange values in Solomon Islands
4. Objects with (a) history: observations on reworking and re-using ancient bronzes
5. The value of things: textiles in the Iron Age
6. Negotiating the value of ethnographic cultural heritage: between scholarship, entertainment, sentimentality and nationalism
7. The gift as an open question
Part II: Re-evaluations
8. Introduction to Part II: Re-evaluations
9. Recycling Egypt? The phenomenon of secondary re-use of Egyptian imports in the Northern Levant during the 2nd millennium BCE
10. Beyond the bones: relics in Greek temples
11. The 'Altar of the Emperors' from Carnuntum
12. How do materials matter?
13. From antiquities to art: why has classical archaeology ignored Marcel Duchamp?
14. When secondary is primary: on Halbzeug and other objects of continual re-evaluation.