Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have made their home in this dynamic region...
Cultural property
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Author:Javid, Ali, Javeed, TabassumSummary: -
Author:Peers, Laura, Brown, Alison K.Summary:In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not...
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Author:Abujidi, NurhanSummary:Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial...
- Author:Bennett, S. J.Summary:
It is the early spring of 2016, and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her nintieth birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the castle bedrooms. Unhappy at the...
- Author:Morelli, LauraSummary:
Two women, separated by 500 years, are swept up in the tide of history as one painting stands at the center of their quests for their own destinies.
- Author:Edsel, Robert M.Summary:
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were...
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Author:Battiste, Marie, Henderson, James Youngblood (Sa'ke'j)Summary:Whether the approximately 500 million Indigenous peoples of the world live in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, they have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. That fate has included...
- Author:Matthews, Maureen AnneSummary:
Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or...
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Author:Hébert, Karine, Goyette, JulienSummary:Cet ouvrage montre que le patrimoine est un processus de part en part, mais un processus qui n’a rien d’abstrait. Le patrimoine, en effet, n’existe pas en dehors d’objets, d’institutions et d’acteurs ; il est également toujours situé –...
- Author:Koldehoff, StefanSummary:
A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions...
