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Why we play : an anthropological study
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ISBN: 9780986132568 098613256X 1912808234 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : HAU Books,

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Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience.


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A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China
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ISBN: 9780295993652 0295993650 9780295993669 0295993669 0295805064 9780295805061 Year: 2014 Publisher: University of Washington Press


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Eenvoudig maar voedzaam : cultuurgeschiedenis van de dagelijkse maaltijd in Nederland.
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ISBN: 9061684277 Year: 1996 Volume: *1 Publisher: Nijmegen SUN


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Natures en tête
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ISBN: 2880780217 Year: 1996 Publisher: Neuchâtel Musée d'ethnographie

Academic anthropology and the museum : back to the future /.
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ISBN: 1571813217 1571818251 Year: 2001 Volume: 13 Publisher: New York Berghahn


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The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds
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ISBN: 9781474264778 1474264778 9781350085688 1350085685 1474264808 1474264786 1474264794 9781474264785 9781474264808 9781474264785 9781474264792 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,

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"We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions -- which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose -- and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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The digital Black Atlantic
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ISBN: 9781517910808 1517910803 9781517910792 151791079X 9781452965307 9781452965314 1452965315 1452965307 Year: 2021 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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"How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production. The Digital Black Atlantic spans the African diaspora's range--from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean--while its essayists span academic fields--from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, The Digital Black Atlantic asks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies. Grounded in contemporary theory and praxis, The Digital Black Atlantic puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both." --


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Indigenous textual cultures : reading and writing in the age of global empire
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ISBN: 9781478009764 1478009764 9781478010814 1478010819 1478093188 147801234X Year: 2020 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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"The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and contest empire, colonialism, and modernity."--


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Luxury in the Low Countries : miscellaneous reflections on Netherlandish material culture, 1500 to the present
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ISBN: 9789054877974 Year: 2010 Publisher: Brussels : FARO. Vlaams steunpunt voor cultureel erfgoed.,

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“Le superflu, chose très nécessaire”, schreef Voltaire in 1736 in zijn gedicht Le Mondain. Luxe is echter veel meer dan ‘gematerialiseerde overbodigheid’. Deze publicatie focust op verschillende vormen van opzichtige materiële cultuur in de Lage Landen van 1500 tot vandaag. Eerder dan voor de hand liggende cases van luxe te bestuderen, tast dit boek de grenzen van het begrip luxe af. Twee onderwerpen komen uitgebreid aan bod: het aanleggen van verzamelingen en het produceren/consumeren van voedsel als expressiemiddelen van welvaart en pracht en praal. Met bijdragen van gerenommeerde internationale onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines zoals archeologie, geschiedenis, literatuur- en mediastudies, kunstgeschiedenis, linguïstiek en historische etnologie.

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