Tag Archives: material culture

Resource: Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Paula

For those looking for more educational resources to use in the classroom, today we’ll briefly introduce a resource developed by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures with sponsorship from Hitachi: The Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and … Continue reading →

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CfP: Chinese Objects and Their Lives, Paris

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Travis

CALL FOR PAPERS – French Association for Chinese Studies 法國漢學協會 (AFEC) “Chinese objects and their lives” International workshop Organizer: French Association of Chinese Studies 法國漢學協會 (AFEC) Date: June 15, 2018 Venue: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales – Inalco, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Zen and Material Culture

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Paula

Zen and Material Culture Edited by Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine Oxford University Press, 2017 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/zen-and-material-culture-9780190469306?lang=en&cc=us The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Paula

Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability was published by the University of Hawaii Press in January of 2016. The book is based on a decade of research into the documentary and material evidence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

Posted on October 18, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. 256pp. December 2015 Cloth – Price: $49.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5157-6 In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of … Continue reading →

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Call for Applications: Summer School “Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality”

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Paula

(Heidelberg, July 29-August 4, 2012) The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” welcomes applications for its Summer School “Seeing Matter(s): Materiality and Visuality” to take place at the Karl Jaspers Centre from Sunday, July 29, to … Continue reading →

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Call for Applications for “Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shosoin”

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Paula

With generous support from the Princeton University Humanities Council, Graduate School, East Asian Studies Program, Buddhist Studies Workshop, and Religion Department we are pleased to announce that “Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shosoin” will be held at Princeton … Continue reading →

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