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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Schliemann’s ‘Troja’: from Ohio to Oxford
Books are a vehicle for transmitting information through the written word, but they are also objects, things, material culture. Like other objects, they are created, have ‘lives’, and will, eventually, ‘die’. They can be bought and sold, possessed, hidden, cached, … Continue reading
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Tagged biography of object, book, Carl Blegen, Mervyn Popham, Schliemann, Thomas Harvey, Troy
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