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Prélever, exhiber. La mise en musées
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ISBN: 2713213401 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

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Cross-cultural universals of aesthetic appreciation in decorative band patterns.
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ISBN: 909012862X Year: 1999 Publisher: Nijmegen NICI

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Museum memories : history, technology, art.
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ISBN: 0804732027 0804736049 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford Stanford university press

Geometry from Africa : mathematical and educational explorations
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ISBN: 0883857154 Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington Mathematical association of America

The great good place : cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salons, and other hangouts at the heart of a community
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ISBN: 9781569246818 1569246815 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press,

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The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of democracy.

Unpacking Culture : Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
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ISBN: 0520207971 0520207963 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley Universtity of California Press

Northumbria's golden age
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ISBN: 0750916850 9780750916851 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stroud, England : Sutton,

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Northumbria enjoyed a Golden Age during the 7th and 8th centuries. This volume contains contributions from leading scholars which present new insights into this period based on the latest documentary research and archaeological discoveries.

Colonial fantasies : towards a feminist reading of Orientalism.
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ISBN: 052148233X 0521626587 9780521482332 9780521626583 9780511583445 0511583443 0511005652 9780511005657 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

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In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of 'otherness'. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.

Material Meanings
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ISBN: 0585123993 9780585123998 9780874806328 0874806321 9780874806335 087480633X 0874806070 9780874806076 0874806089 9780874806083 Year: 1999

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With firm roots in antiquarianism, archaeology began as the study and collection of things. Even today objects take center stage in many areas of archaeological inquiry. But the past few decades have seen a proliferation of the ways anthropological archaeologists analyze raw materials, tools, techniques, finished products, and discarded objects. Material Meanings examines current approaches to material culture in the archaeological record from three perspectives: ethnoarchaeology and technological traditions; materials science; and theoretical approaches to materiality. The focus of this book is not on artifacts themselves but on the social context in which things are produced and in which they are given meaning; the technical choices of an artifact producer within a larger technical system; and their interpretation by modern researchers. The chapters represent a broad range of theoretical perspectives, methods, and data sets. Several chapters consider methodological issues in reconstructing technical systems. Most contributions, however, apply this understanding to larger questions of social identity and ethnicity, emphasizing historical context or models of cultural process.

Defacement : public secrecy and the labor of the negative.
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ISBN: 0804732000 9780804732000 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford Stanford university press

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Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that such activity is attractive in its very repulsion, and that it creates something sacred even in the most secular of societies and circumstances. In specifying the human face as the ideal type for thinking through such violation, this book raises the issue of secrecy as the depth that seems to surface with the tearing of surface. This surfacing is made all the more subtle and ingenious, not to mention everyday, by the deliberately partial exposures involved in the public secret defined as what is generally known but, for one reason or another, cannot easily be articulated. Arguing that this sort of knowledge (knowing what not to know) is the most powerful form of social knowledge, Taussig works with ideas and motifs from Nietzsche, William Burroughs, Elias Canetti, Georges Bataille, and the ethnography of unmasking in so-called primitive societies in order to extend his earlier work on mimesis and transgression. Underlying his concern with defacement and the public secret is the search for a mode of truth telling that unmasks, but only to reenchant, thereby underlining Walter Benjamin s notion that truth is not a matter of exposure of the secret, but a revelation that does justice to it

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