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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

By: Kerstin Barndt,Carla M. Sinopoli

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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

By: Kerstin Barndt,Carla M. Sinopoli

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens; ethnographic and archaeological artifacts; photographs and artistic works; encyclopedia, textbooks, rare books, and documents; and many other items. These vast collections and libraries testify to an ambitious vision of the research university as a place where knowledge is accumulated, shared, and disseminated through teaching, exhibition, and publication. Today, two hundred years after the university’s founding, museums, libraries, and archives continue to be an important part of U-M, which maintains more than twenty distinct museums, libraries, and collections. Viewed from a historic perspective, they provide a window through which we can explore the transformation of the academy, its public role, and the development of scholarly disciplines over the last two centuries. Even as they speak to important facets of Michigan’s history, many of these collections also remain essential to academic research, knowledge production, and object-based pedagogy. Moreover, the university’s exhibitions and displays attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from the campus, regional, and global communities. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of these world-renowned collections, this book will appeal to readers interested in the history of museums and collections, the formation of academic disciplines, and of course the University of Michigan.

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

The study of specialized craft production has a long tradition in archaeological research. Through analyses of material remains and the contexts of their production and use, archaeologists can examine the organization of craft production and the economic and political status of craft producers. This study combines archaeological and historical evidence from the author's twenty years of fieldwork at the imperial capital of Vijayanagara to explore the role and significance of craft production in the city's political economy of the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. By examining a diverse range of crafts from poetry to pottery, Sinopoli evaluates models of craft production and expands upon theoretical and historical understandings of empires in general and Vijayanagara in particular. It is the most broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, or in any other early state empire.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139440748

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The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

By: Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

By: Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

Vijayanagara, the “City of Victory,” was the capital of South India’s largest and most successful pre-colonial empire from c. AD 1330-1565. This richly illustrated volume reports on the results of a ten-year systematic regional archaeological survey in the hinterland or “metropolitan region” of this vast and well-preserved urban site.

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U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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0915703653

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9780915703654

Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

More than any other category of evidence, ceramics ofters archaeologists their most abundant and potentially enlightening source of information on the past. Being made primarily of day, a relatively inexpensive material that is available in every region, ceramics became essential in virtually every society in the world during the past ten thousand years. The straightfor ward technology of preparing, forming, and firing day into hard, durable shapes has meant that societies at various levels of complexity have come to rely on it for a wide variety of tasks. Ceramic vessels quickly became essential for many household and productive tasks. Food preparation, cooking, and storage-the very basis of settled village life-could not exist as we know them without the use of ceramic vessels. Often these vessels broke into pieces, but the virtually indestructible quality of the ceramic material itself meant that these pieces would be preserved for centuries, waiting to be recovered by modem archaeologists. The ability to create ceramic material with diverse physical properties, to form vessels into so many different shapes, and to decorate them in limitless manners, led to their use in far more than utilitarian contexts. Some vessels were especially made to be used in trade, manufacturing activities, or rituals, while ceramic material was also used to make other items such as figurines, models, and architectural ornaments.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475792743

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Wrapped in Beauty

The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls

By: Grace Beardsley,Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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Wrapped in Beauty

The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls

By: Grace Beardsley,Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

This richly illustrated volume examines the remarkable Kashmiri shawls of the Walter Koelz Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Part I presents the history, production, forms, and ornamentation of Kashmiri shawls, focusing on the impact of social contexts and the advent of the Jacquard loom on shawl development. Part II is a detailed descriptive catalogue of the shawls in the Koelz Collection. An accompanying CD-ROM includes color illustrations of the shawls in the collection as well as a transcribed manuscript by Koelz.

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0915703602

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9780915703609

Hyecho's Journey

The World of Buddhism

By: Donald S. Lopez Jr.,Rebecca Bloom,Kevin Gray Carr,Chun Wa Chan,Ha Nul Jun,Carla M. Sinopoli,Keiko Yokota

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Hyecho's Journey

The World of Buddhism

By: Donald S. Lopez Jr.,Rebecca Bloom,Kevin Gray Carr,Chun Wa Chan,Ha Nul Jun,Carla M. Sinopoli,Keiko Yokota

This book is an introduction to Buddhism told as the story of the Korean pilgrim Hyecho, who traveled through the Buddhist world during its eighth-century golden age. Lopez tells the story of Hyecho's journey, along the way introducing key elements of Buddhism--its basic doctrines, monastic institutions, relationship to Islam, and importance of pilgrimage.

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University of Chicago Press

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022651790X

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9780226517902

The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz

The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz

The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

In the fall of 1932, University of Michigan naturalist Walter N. Koelz traveled to northwest India to lead a scientific collecting expedition in the rugged Himalayan regions of Western Tibet. Some eighteen months later he returned to the United States with a remarkable collection of biological specimens and an array of objects—Buddhist paintings, ritual objects, textiles, and household goods—acquired from monasteries, households, and merchants. This book presents the diary entries Koelz wrote at the end of each day throughout his expedition, recounting in detail each day’s travels, bookended by a chapter contextualizing his acquisition of sacred Buddhist objects and an appendix that presents previously unpublished thangka paintings that he collected.

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0915703807

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, C. 1350-1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, C. 1350-1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

Through both archaeological and historical evidence, Carla Sinopoli explores the role and significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. She examines a diverse range of crafts from poetry to pottery, employing evidence from her twenty years of fieldwork.

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350–1650

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Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350-1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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The Political Economy of Craft Production

Crafting Empire in South India, c.1350-1650

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

Carla Sinopoli examines a diverse range of crafts to explore the role and significance of craft production in the political economy of the fourteenth through seventeenth-century South Indian Vijayanagara empire. Ranging from poetry to pottery, Sinopoli utilizes evidence from twenty years of fieldwork at the Vijayanagara capital, one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world in its time. This book is a broad-ranging study of craft production in South Asia, as well as other early state empires.

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The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

By: Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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By: Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

By: Carla M. Sinopoli

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Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

By: Kerstin Barndt,Carla M. Sinopoli

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The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017

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Wrapped in Beauty

The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls

By: Grace Beardsley,Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls

By: Grace Beardsley,Carla M. Sinopoli,Kathleen D. Morrison

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Book's by Carla M Sinopoli

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

Wrapped in Beauty

Wrapped in Beauty

Hyecho's Journey

Hyecho's Journey

The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz

The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Political Economy of Craft Production

The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey, Vol. 1

Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge

Wrapped in Beauty

Wrapped in Beauty

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