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This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century.

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice.

This book presents over twenty authors' reflections on 'curating care' - and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life, and for more 'caring curating' that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.

The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future.

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation, vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation.

This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and cosmopolitanism.

Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Their book proposes a framework for exploring sociopragmatic phenomena, building on the key sociopragmatic axes of indexing, evaluating and relating, and offers fresh new perspectives.

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Mouments have created, destroyed and resued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making of history, identity and memory. This collection interrogages the legacies and afterlives of the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting's subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version.

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; reframing feminisms in USA; revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Europe among other themes.

This book builds on the work of anthropologists, designers and ethnographers to develop an original methodology and framework for Indigenous engagement and designer/non-designer collaboration in the field of social design.

This volume is the first to evaluate current practices and conceptual frameworks that have developed around the collection, preservation, and display of time-based media art. A critical resource for conservation students and professionals engaging with time-based media art.