TY - BOOK ID - 78012018 TI - Mobility, meaning and the transformations of things AU - Hahn, Hans Peter AU - Weiss, Hadas AU - Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space PY - 2013 SN - 178297086X 1782970843 9781782970842 9781782970866 9781842175255 1842175254 PB - Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, DB - UniCat KW - Material culture KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78012018 AB - Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives. Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. Yet the material continuity disguises the transformations they may undergo, which only become evident upo ER -