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Treasures in Trusted Hands : Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by private persons and other categories. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has …
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- 9789088904417
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- 290 p. : ill
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- 301 JOS t
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra : transformations in early historic and e…
This book reports on excavations at Paithan in India revealed the development of two early Hindu temples from the 4th century to the 9th: the key formative phase of Hinduism. The temples started as small shrines but were elaborated into formal temples. In relation to these changes, the excavations revealed a sequence of palaeobotanical and palaeofaunal evidence that give insight into the econom…
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- 9783110653540
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- XX, 386 p.
- Series Title
- Beyond Boundaries, 5
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- 956.94 KER e
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs : a new look at the reli…
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields an outstanding contribution to the uniqueness of Majapahit culture.
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- 9789004258655
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- XVII, 397 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 280
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- 294.550959828 KIE f
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