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Refashioning and Redress. Conserving and Displaying Dress. (2016)
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Brooks, M. M., & Eastop, D. D. (Eds.). (2016). Refashioning and Redress. Conserving and Displaying Dress. Getty Conservation Institute

This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, Ref... Read More about Refashioning and Redress. Conserving and Displaying Dress..

Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures (2016)
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Tolia-Kelly, D., Waterton, E., & Watson, S. (Eds.). (2016). Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures. Routledge

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjec... Read More about Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures.

Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture (2015)
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Osborne, D. (Ed.). (2015). Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture. Boydell & Brewer

In recent years, the discourse of memory - and of German memory culture in particular - has become increasingly concerned with questions of the archive. An archive can refer to a physical place, the material found there, or the system that orders thi... Read More about Archive and Memory in German Literature and Visual Culture.

Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (2014)
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Flynn, A., & Tinius, J. (Eds.). (2015). Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350602

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the... Read More about Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance.

Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. (2017)
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Foegen, T., & Thomas, E. (Eds.). (2017). Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545623

The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belo... Read More about Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity..

Chivalry and the Medieval Past. (2016)
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Gribling, B., & Stevenson, K. (Eds.). (2016). Chivalry and the Medieval Past. Boydell & Brewer

An examination of the ways in which the fluid concept of "chivalry" has been used and appropriated after the Middle Ages. One of the most difficult and complex ethical and cultural codes to define, chivalry has proved a flexible, ever-changing phenom... Read More about Chivalry and the Medieval Past..

Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds (2015)
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Hampshire, K., & Simpson, R. (Eds.). (2015). Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds. Berghahn Books

Following the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the “First Phase” of AR... Read More about Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds.

Spanish Erotic Cinema (2017)
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Fouz-Hernández, S. (Ed.). (2017). Spanish Erotic Cinema. Edinburgh University Press

This book is the first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema. It covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until today. Starting with a study of the eroticisation of technology in the silent period, the... Read More about Spanish Erotic Cinema.

Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture (2005)
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Stewart, J. C., & Ward, S. (Eds.). (2005). Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture. Peter Lang

This volume brings together a collection of essays focusing on selected aspects of inter- and multidisciplinarity in contemporary Austrian culture. These include the connections between literature and the media, literature and the visual arts, litera... Read More about Blueprints for No-Man's Land: Connections in Contemporary Austrian Culture.

Perceptual Ephemera (2018)
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Mac Cumhaill, C., & Crowther, T. (Eds.). (2018). Perceptual Ephemera. Oxford University Press