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Journal articles on the topic "Miniature objects – Collectors and collecting"

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Haidenthaller, Ylva. "Collecting Coins and Medals in 18th-Century Sweden." Artium Quaestiones, no. 34 (December 27, 2023): 111–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2023.34.4.

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During the 18th century, collections of coins and medals were familiar sights. The collectors ranged from scholars to amateurs, men and women and the collectables tempted collectors for various reasons: they signified wealth and knowledge, they rendered historical events or current politics in material form, or they were miniature artworks and financial investments. Also, the visual and material culture that involved collecting coins and medals consisted of cabinets and numismatic publications. But how were numismatic collections amassed, and how were they used? What did it mean to own a coin
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Penttinen, Saara. "Mikrokosmoksen matkaajat. Matkamuistot ja omakohtainen kokemus 1600-luvun englantilaisissa kuriositeettikokoelmissa." Matkailututkimus 17, no. 2 (2022): 22–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33351/mt.114550.

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Royal gardeners and collectors of curiosities, father and son John Tradescant, were praised as world-travellers, who created a miniature world for their contemporaries to enjoy. But whose world was it based on – and whose world did it convey? In this article, I examine the objects and plants in seventeenth-century English cabinets of curiosities as both personal and culturally collective souvenirs, through which I reveal contemporary ideas about mobility, travel, and the concept of first-hand experience in Early modern England. As an example, I use the collection known as the Tradescant Ark wi
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Maniakowska-Jazownik, dr Zofia. "Zjawisko korozji szkieł w zbiorach miniatur Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie / The Phenomenon of Glass Corrosion in Miniature Collections from the National Museum in Krakow (Summary)." Rozprawy Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie/Papers of the National Museum in Krakow 13, no. 13 (2025): 134–51. https://doi.org/10.52800/rmnk13.a9.

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As multitechnological objects, miniatures are exposed to many destructive processes within all component materials. Their results and effects overlap and initiate further damage. In miniature collections, glass performs various functions. It is most often present in the form of cover glass, which, characteristically, is usually convex. It also often plays the role of a painting support in many techniques used for creating miniatures. Glass, as a sensitive material, is subject to complex corrosive processes. It is very complicated and difficult to protect miniatures from these changes.
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Davy, Jack. "Lars Hætta’s miniature world: Sámi prison op-art autoethnography." Journal of Material Culture 23, no. 3 (2017): 280–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183517745716.

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This article examines a collection of miniature objects, now held in museum collections, which were originally made by a Sámi political prisoner in Norway during the mid-19th century as part of an educational programme. The author draws on recent developments in the theory of miniaturization to consider these miniatures as examples of prison op-art autoethnography: communicative devices which seek to address broad and complex social issues through the process of the creation and distribution of semiophorically functionless mimetic objects of reduced scale and complexity, and which reflect the
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Laugrand, Frédéric B., and Jarich G. Oosten. "De la conservation à la restitution." Anthropologie et Sociétés 38, no. 3 (2015): 113–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1029021ar.

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Cet article traite de l’itinéraire d’un qalugiujaq, un couteau miniature ayant appartenu au célèbre chamane Qimuksiraaq. L’objet a été trouvé dans un fonds d’archives des Soeurs grises de Nicolet, et récemment restitué à un descendant de ce chamane. Les auteurs soulignent l’agencéité de ces objets miniatures capables de créer des connexions dans le temps ou dans l’espace. Ici, le pouvoir transformationnel de la miniature à l’étude demeure visiblement intact en dépit de plusieurs décennies de christianisation. Au-delà de mesures dites d’indigénisation, ce constat devrait conduire les musées à p
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MacDonald, Carolyn. "Take-Away Art: Ekphrasis and Appropriation in Martial's Apophoreta 170–82." Classical Antiquity 36, no. 2 (2017): 288–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2017.36.2.288.

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This paper examines the cultural antagonisms of Martial's Apophoreta 170–82, a unique series of epigrammatic gift-tags for artworks to be given away during the Saturnalia. In these poems, I argue, Martial thematizes and enacts Rome's transformative appropriation of cultural capital from Greece and elsewhere. First, he adopts the Hellenistic trope of the ekphrastic gallery tour in order to evoke the “museum spaces” of the Flavian city, where artworks became testaments to the power and culture of Rome (Section 1). While evoking these masterpiece collections, however, the epigrams in fact describ
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Gusarova, Ekaterina. "Ethiopian Manuscripts in the State and Private Collections of St Petersburg: An Overview." Aethiopica 18 (July 7, 2016): 109–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.18.1.926.

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For more than two centuries St Petersburg, the capital of the former Russian Empire, has been famous for its collections of Ethiopian manuscripts, objects of art and documents concerning Ethiopian history. They are concentrated in three state institutions and in several private collections of African art. This article provides a short history of formation of Ethiopian manuscript collections of Russia and describes the process of their description and study. Some interesting and unpublished items were generally describedand their miniatures published.
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Fiorillo, Flavia, Lucia Burgio, Christine Slottved Kimbriel, and Paola Ricciardi. "Non-Invasive Technical Investigation of English Portrait Miniatures Attributed to Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver." Heritage 4, no. 3 (2021): 1165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030064.

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This study presents the results of the technical investigation carried out on several English portrait miniatures painted in the 16th and 17th century by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, two of the most famous limners working at the Tudor and Stuart courts. The 23 objects chosen for the analysis, spanning almost the entire career of the two artists, belong to the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge). A non-invasive scientific methodology, comprising of stereo and optical microscopies, Raman microscopy, and X-ray fluorescence spectrosc
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Williams, Emily Rebecca. "Red Collections in Contemporary China." British Journal of Chinese Studies 11 (June 29, 2021): 71–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.51661/bjocs.v11i0.73.

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“Red Collecting” is a widespread phenomenon in contemporary China. It refers to the collecting of objects from the Chinese Communist Party’s history. Red Collecting has received only minimal treatment in English-language scholarly literature, much of which focuses on individual object categories (primarily propaganda posters and Chairman Mao badges) and overemphasises the importance of Cultural Revolution objects within the field. Because of this limited focus, the collectors’ motivations have been similarly circumscribed, described primarily in terms of either neo-Maoist nostalgia or the purs
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Burgio, Lucia. "Bismuth White (Bismuth Oxychloride) and Its Use in Portrait Miniatures Painted by George Engleheart." Minerals 14, no. 7 (2024): 723. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min14070723.

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This article documents the discovery of ‘bismuth white’ on three late eighteenth-century portrait miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections, painted by renowned English artist George Engleheart. Metallic bismuth and bismuth-containing minerals have been known for centuries and were used on various types of artistic production, from German Wismutmalerei to medieval manuscripts and Renaissance paintings. However, until now they had never been documented on portrait miniatures, despite documentary evidence that suggests their use. The Raman analysis of the three miniatures shows th
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Miniature objects – Collectors and collecting"

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Allsop, Jessica Lauren. "Curious objects and Victorian collectors : men, markets, museums." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14976.

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This thesis examines the portrayal of gentleman collectors in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature, arguing that they often find themselves challenged and destabilised by their collections. The collecting depicted contrasts revealingly with the Enlightenment practices of classification, taxonomy, and commodification, associated with the growth of both the public museum and the market economy. The dominance of such practices was bound up with the way they promoted subject-object relations that defined and empowered masculine identity. In the Dialectic of Enlightenment Theodor
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Wills, David. "Cultural Mulch : an investigation into collectors who create collections of mass produced objects and of the potential significance of those objects in relation to consumer culture." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8036.

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Collecting is an activity that stems from humankinds roots as hunters and gathers, when necessity rather than want, was key. This dissertation considers the strategies and motivations behind collecting in the 21st Century and what the significance is of collected objects. It considers the many guises, aims and reasons for collections being made, from the attainment of wealth and status, to the filling of personal voids, or the simple pleasures of belonging to a like-minded group of people. The dissertation charts contemporary influences in collecting behaviour, from an increased interest in ce
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Wear, Eric Otto, and 華立強. "Patterns in the collecting and connoisseurship of Chinese art in Hong Kong and Taiwan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894392.

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Hewitt, Peter. "The material culture of Shakespeare's England : a study of the early modern objects in the museum collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5870/.

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This thesis investigates the material culture of early modern England as reflected in the object collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. The collection consists of nearly 300 objects and six buildings dating from the period 1500-1650 representing 'the life, work and times of William Shakespeare', with a particular emphasis on domestic and community life in Shakespeare's Stratford. Using approaches from museum studies and material culture studies together with historical research, this thesis demonstrates how objects add depth and complexity to historical and mus
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Wingfield, Chris. "The moving objects of the London Missionary Society : an experiment in symmetrical anthropology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3437/.

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An experimental attempt to consider the history of the London Missionary Society (LMS) from the lens of the artefacts that accumulated at its London headquarters, which included a museum from 1814 until 1910. The movement of these things through space and over time offers a rich perspective for considering the impacts on Britain of its history of overseas missionary activity. Building on anthropological debates about exchange, material culture, and the agency of things, the biographies of particular objects are explored in relation to the processes involved in the assemblage, circulation and d
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Taylor, Emily Joan. "Women's dresses from eighteenth-century Scotland : fashion objects and identities." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4772/.

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Identity and its different constructions - national, social and personal, for example - are increasingly recognised as fundamental to understanding current and historic cultures. The reflexive relationship of identity issues with sartorial expression is a key concept within dress, fashion and textile studies. This thesis contributes to that growing body of knowledge by developing an understanding of how specific eighteenth century Scotswomen and their families related to their garments, thus bringing together contemporary study methods and understandings of identity with historic manifestation
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Hsu, Yuan-Fei, and 徐苑斐. "Miniature world: Collecting, play and self-identity of collectors of diorama." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vwez85.

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Kremer, Roberta A. "Meaningful materialism : collectors relationship to their objects." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1828.

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The shared language, attitudes, practices and patterns of those who participate in “collecting" in the lower mainland area of British Columbia are described. Recurring themes and patterns emerge in the analysis of data obtained through interviews with thirty collector-informants. The generalizability of collecting as a phenomenon which exists outside of what is being collected is established. Collectors' roles as curators and the serious and consuming aspects of collecting, including the cycles of collecting, affection and sentiment held toward collected objects, and the strategies and approac
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Sjovoll, Therese. "Queen Christina of Sweden´s Musaeum: Collecting and Display in the Palazzo Riario." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8NG4PFC.

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Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)--one of the most celebrated, if controversial, converts of all times--settled in the papal city after her abdication in 1654. Her palace--the Palazzo Riario (today Corsini)--became one of Rome's leading cultural institutions: a site where learned, artistic, and elite culture converged. This study examines Christina's practice of collecting, and argues that her ambition was to create a center for learning and the arts in the Palazzo Riario modeled on the ancient Musaeum of Alexandria. While Christina's importance as a patron of art and learning has long bee
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Fenn, Julia Geraldine. "Chance encounters: The construction of meaning through the process of assemblage in the boxes of Joseph Cornell and contemporary jewellery of Thomas Mann." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1532.

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Student Number : 9406610A - MA(FA) dissertation - School of Fine Art - Faculty of Arts<br>This thesis is a study of the box constructions of New York artist Joseph Cornell from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, and the influence of his work on that of contemporary American jeweller Thomas Mann, as well as my own artistic production. The key areas of focus are the process of assemblage and the implications of the box format, with the following themes being explored: miniature space and time; preciousness; fetishism and voyeurism. These are followed through into the section on my own wo
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Books on the topic "Miniature objects – Collectors and collecting"

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Schiffer, Herbert F. Miniature antique furniture. Schiffer Pub., 1995.

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Earnshaw, Nora. Collecting dolls houses and miniatures. New Cavendish Books, 1993.

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Force, Edward. Classic miniature vehicles made in Italy. Schiffer Pub., 1992.

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Hornung, Bob. Beton basics: A guide for collectors. R. Hornung, 1987.

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Messer, Pam. ' Twas the night before--. Mosaic Press, 1994.

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Vinokhodov, Vladimir. Olovi︠a︡nnomu soldatiku s li︠u︡bovʹi︠u︡. Izd-vo im. E.A. Bolkhovitinova, 2010.

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Punchard, Lorraine May. Playtime kitchen items and table accessories. L.M. Punchard, 1993.

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Baker, Donna S. Wade miniatures. Schiffer Publishing, 2004.

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Russo, Vincent J. Composition figures of Belgium: The Durso Company. Elm Press, 1998.

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Punchard, Lorraine May. Playtime pottery & porcelain. Schiffer, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Miniature objects – Collectors and collecting"

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"Introduction: objects, collectors and representations." In Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203120125-8.

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Gochberg, Reed. "Specimen Collectors." In Useful Objects. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197553480.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the early history of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and broader conversations about the representation of the natural world as fixed and stable. While the museum’s founder, Louis Agassiz, emphasized the value of preserved specimens to research and teaching, many collectors and writers questioned such practices. After donating turtles to the museum, Henry David Thoreau contemplated the ethical and scientific implications of freezing nature for extended study. In children’s fiction, Louisa May Alcott emphasized the relationship between collecting specimens and mora
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Sogno, Cristiana. "The Letter Collection of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus." In Late Antique Letter Collections. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520281448.003.0013.

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The collection of Symmachus’s letters is one of the largest to survive from Antiquity, but the notorious brevity and apparent emptiness of the letters have been until recently the object of scholarly censure and dismissal. A careful and unbiased approach, however, suggests that the carefully wrought brevitas of Symmachus’s letters is a creative response to the challenges posed by the greater restrictions imposed on letter writing in his times. Ultimately, an interesting tension emerges between the autobiographical monumentality of the macrotext, represented by the letter collection as a whole,
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Ballester, Benjamín, Serge Lemaitre, Marcela Sepúlveda, and Caroline Tilleux. "Three-Beam Models from the Coast of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile." In Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America. University Press of Florida, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813069821.003.0013.

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The chapter presents the first direct radiocarbon dating of the popular three-masted balsa miniatures used in the Central South Andean coast during pre-Columbian times, from materials from museum collections in Chile and Europe. The results allow us to define the precise chronology of these miniatures and to discuss whether the life-size models of these miniatures were in fact used to navigate these coasts. The conclusion proposes to understand these objects as miniatures, and as such, as representations that do not necessarily reflect past realities in a direct way.
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Arthur, Leslie. "Bibliographers, Booksellers, and Collectors of the Hogarth Press." In Virginia Woolf and the World of Books. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954569.003.0015.

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This chapter considers the treasures of the Hogarth Press available to collectors, including rare, limited edition books hand-printed by the Woolfs. It explores the intellectual pleasures of collecting objects and touches on the lives of Hogarth Press collectors.
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Stahn, Carsten. "Collecting Mania, Racial Science, and Cultural Conversion through Forcible Expeditions." In Confronting Colonial Objects. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868121.003.0003.

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Abstract This chapter traces the link between evolutionary and racial science and the scramble for objects since the mid-nineteenth century, based on micro-histories of forcible expeditions, carried out by different colonial powers (France, the UK, Belgium, Germany). It argues that ‘scientific’ discourse contributed to central premises of the colonial project: the idea of racial superiority or the image of the ‘vanishing’ of other cultures. It shows that colonial takings were driven by conflicting narratives which centralized colonizers. It demonstrates that cultural takings challenged at the
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Habib, André, Louis Pelletier, and Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan. "Introduction." In Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048565955_ch01.

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This introduction explores the role of collectors throughout the history of cinema and its preservation, highlighting their influence on the development of archives, museums and cinematheques, as well as film studies. It emphasizes that collectors have safeguarded forgotten aspects of film history and have often been a step ahead of heritage institutions. The latter‘s work is presented as a quest that has had the effect of transforming objects regarded as refuse into artefacts with exhibition value. The authors also examine the evolution of film collections and cinematographic artifacts since
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Stahn, Carsten. "The Scramble for Cultural Colonial Objects: Other Types of Acquisition." In Confronting Colonial Objects. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868121.003.0004.

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Abstract This chapter demonstrates how collectors, traders, or missionaries benefited from colonial contexts. It argues that market labels, such as purchase or the idea of a ‘gift’ do not necessarily reflect the context of colonial transactions. It also traces forms of resistance to colonial narratives and the social transformation of objects. It demonstrates entanglements through object histories from different colonial contexts (settler colonialism, extractive colonialism, and colonial occupation), namely: (1) the Māori ancestral house from Tūranga; (2) Moai Hoa Hakananai (1868); (3) the ‘Gr
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Cuéllar, Gregory Lee. "The Collecting Impulse in Lamentations: Postcolonial Traumata Made Miniature in Word-Objects." In Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament. T&T Clark, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567680976.0023.

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Jankowski, Lyce. "The Scientific Approach to Collecting." In Connoisseurship. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923587.003.0003.

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Abstract The nineteenth century was an interesting period for numismatics in China: a hundred scholars actively collected coins at that time, major collectors engaged in research, and in consequence fifty books or essays were published on the subject. The numismatists of that time developed a scientific approach to a scholar’s hobby, coin collecting. Their work was greatly influenced by the kaozhengxue movement—a textual criticism approach developed in China in the second half of the seventeenth century. Ancient texts were no longer considered a source of truth: the authenticity of any text ha
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