Mobility, meaning and the transformations of things : shifting contexts of material culture through time and space / edited by Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weiss.

"The contributions to this book are based on presentations and discussions at a conference, held in October 2011, entitled 'Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space' at the Goethe University in Frankfurt."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : biographies, travels and itineraries of things / Hans Peter Hahn and Hadas Weiss -- Houses of resistance : time and materiality among the Mao of Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Imprints as punctuations of material itineraries / Carl Knappett -- The sacred king, royal containers, alienable material contents, and value in contemporary Cameroon / Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Containing precious metals : hallmarking, minting and the materiality of gold and silver in medieval and modern England / Peter Oakley -- Worthless things? : on the difference between devaluing and sorting out things / Anamaria Depner -- Against the throw-away-mentality : the reuse of amphoras in ancient maritime transport / Selma Abdelhamid -- A secondary use of Roman coins? : possibilities and limitations of object biography / Gordana Ciric -- The role of flint in mediating identities : the microscopic evidence / Annelou van Gijn and Karsten Wentink -- Wampum as maussian objet social totalitaire / Mario Schmidt -- Bright as the sun : the appropriation of amber objects in Mycenaean Greece / Joseph Maran -- The materiality of medieval heirlooms : from biographical to sacred objects / Roberta Gilchrist -- Epilogue : cultural biographies and itineraries of things : second thoughts / David Fontijn.

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