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Values and Revaluations - The Transformation and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
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Values and Revaluations - The Transformation and Genesis of 'Values in Things' from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives (Paperback)
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Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort
does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the
different appraisal of certain things in different temporal
horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value
is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still
little understood. The case studies in this volume, originating
from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and
differentiated answers to these questions. However, for all
contributions there are some common basic assumptions. One of these
concerns the understanding that it is rarely the value of the
material itself that matters for high valuation, but rather the
appreciation of the (assumed or constructed) origin of certain
objects or their connection with certain social structures. A
second of these shared insights addresses the ubiquity of phenomena
of 'value in things'. There is no society without valued objects.
As a rule, valuation is something negotiated or even disputed.
Value arises through social action, whereby it is always necessary
to ask anew which actors are interested in the value of certain
objects (or in their appreciation). This also works the other way
round: Who are those actors who question corresponding objective
values and why?
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