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Japan's book donation to the University of Louvain : Japanese cultural identi…
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023 With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese book donation to the University of Leuven/Louvain constitutes an invaluable time capsule of Japan’s pre-modern culture in all its diversity and richness. A century on, th…
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- 1
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- 9789462702288
- Collation
- 296p.; ill.
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- 950 JAP s
Scattered finds : archaeology, Egyptology and museums
Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post…
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- 9781787351400
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- XIII, 304 p.
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- 932 STE s
Across anthropology: troubling colonial legacies, museums and the curatorial
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies…
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- 9789461663177
- Collation
- 434p.: ill.
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- 301 ACR a
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, the Museum holds more than 80,000 objects and is one of the largest and finest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the worl…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781910634042
- Collation
- 120 p.
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- 932.00744213 STE p
Western Arabia in the Leiden collections : traces of a colourful past
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789087282592
- Collation
- 191p. : ill.
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- 953.8 MOL w
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