The Value of Colour: Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World
Shiyanthi Thavapalan, David Alan Warburton (eds.)
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.
カテゴリー:
年:
2019
出版社:
Edition Topoi
言語:
english
ページ:
338
ISBN 10:
3982067014
ISBN 13:
9783982067018
シリーズ:
Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, 70
ファイル:
PDF, 5.25 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019