Trajectories of Meaning: the Shifting Power of Things

The meaning of things has, over the last decades, assured ever greater political significance. National identity and national ambition are frequently tethered to objects to which particular significance is attached. In this lecture I want to examine a few examples of the instability of the meaning...

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Main Author: Neil MacGregor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2012-12-01
Series:Transcultural Studies
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Online Access:https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/transcultural/article/view/9543