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Value of Colour - Material and economic aspects in the Ancient World - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 70

English · Paperback / Softback

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In The Value of Colour, an interdisciplinary group of scholars come together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours. Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this volume highlight the fact that in earliest human history, colours appear in contexts of prestige (value) and commerce. Acquisition, production, labour, circulation and consumption are among the issues discussed by individual authors to show how colourful materials acquired meaning in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Spanning the Palaeolithic to the early Imperial Rome, the contributions also demonstrate the many questions asked and approaches used by historians in the growing field of Colour Studies. --- In der Reihe BERLIN STUDIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD erscheinen Monographien und Sammelbände aller altertumswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Die Publikationen gehen aus der Arbeit des Exzellenzclusters "Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations" hervor, einem Forschungsverbund der Freien Universität Berlin und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie den Partnerinstitutionen Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Die Reihe ist Bestandteil der Publikationsplattform Edition Topoi. Alle Bände der Reihe sind elektronisch unter www.edition-topoi.org verfügbar.

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Authors Shiyanthi Thavapalan, David A Warburton, David A. Warburton
Publisher Pro Business
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2019
 
EAN 9783982067018
ISBN 978-3-9820670-1-8
No. of pages 337
Dimensions 173 mm x 240 mm x 26 mm
Weight 704 g
Illustrations Erschienen im Verlag Edition Topoi des Exzellenzclusters Topoi.
Series Berlin Studies of the Ancient World
Exzellenzcluster Topoi
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity

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