...Philipp Scholz Rittermann; Carol McCusker In 2009 and 2010, photographer Philipp Scholz Rittermann followed China’s thousand-mile-long Grand Canal. His images reveal the layers of contemporary China’s socioeconomic strata and the collision of antiquity with modernity in urban, industrial, and rural...

... as they extended control into culturally diverse regions. We draw attention to tensions between incorporation and differentiation, to strategies for managing local elites and other intermediaries, and to the competitions and conflicts among empires that shaped world history from antiquity until the present...

... claims of heritage or, conversely, estrangement from the present. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Bruno Snell E. R. Dodds classics classicism antiquity Figure 1 Cover of Bruno Snell’s The Discovery of the Mind . Figure 1. Cover of Bruno Snell’s The Discovery...

...) is of course the aged—distressed or genuinely antique—one: made up of books not meant for reading, often selected solely for their alluring covers; or of expensive (and unreadable by design) handcrafted spine replicas, articulated in three dimensions, prearranged into sets and priced by row length; sometimes...

... sign of race as historical retrover- sion, Benedict Anderson places the dreams of racism “outside history” alto- gether. For FoucauIt race and blood interfere with sexuality. For Anderson racism has its origins in antique ideologies of class that belong to the aristo- cratic “pre-history...

..., the Mini monument exceeds its potentially confusing Central Javanese counterpart by enabling us to see "Borobudur" in its entirety, its very completeness. The greatest of Central Javanese antiquities is thus converted to a sort of Maxi- Borobudur - a cumbersome version of "Borobudur"-ness...

...' and 'advances', and forgets the unsolved dilemmas and disturbances. This is not to suggest that fresh thoughts are not needed, but we must beware of the flash of the new for its own sake just as we watch carefully the fabrication of antiques; tricksters abound, and oppression is not outdated, not yet...

... structure of traditional Chinese texts. Lulled into a false sense of security by what appears, in Loehr’s terms, 1. The contemporary calligrapher Qi Gong likens the use of language in calligraphy to the use of antique pots and vases; “If you put an excavated tiger-shaped ewer [possibly used...

... this transitory fleeting element, the metaphorphoses of which are so frequent, nor to dispense with it. If you do, you inevitably fall into the emptiness of an abstract and undefinable beauty. . . . Woe betide the man who goes to antiquity...

... the exhibit is currently limited to the much humbler time span of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it maintains the aggressive eclecticism of the 1976 exhibit. At various times this same exhibit has displayed such diverse objects as antique guns, quilts, menorahs, Plains Indian...

... Sets and Individuals At home, the genuine antiques, the heirlooms, the objects on their own, cannot exist in peace with their newly arrived fellows from Ikea. There is something highly problematic about the coexistence of these two types...

.... Castellan, on the other hand, was interested in doing an anthropological reconstruction of history and saw in Warburg a scholar who put all his erudition at play to analyze why all those intellectuals and artists of the 1400s returned to antiquity to envision and imagine new forms. The other thing...

.... Fabian, Johannes. 1983 . Time and the other:How anthropology makes its object . New York: Columbia University Press. Ghosh, Amitav. 1993 . In an antique land . London: Granta Books. Güven, Yaşar, ed. 1993 . BasindaÇerkezler [Circassians in print]. Istanbul:Bağlarbaşğ Gençlik Kurumu...

... obsession with the automobile. Lionel trains track their way above walls replete with rail schedules and ads. Brass nautical fixtures, portholes, and an antique telescope commemorate steamship travel between America and the Continent from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Suspended...

... by a spurious antiquity. Coda. Conservationists have succeeded in restoring a handful of Zanzibar’s colonial monuments. In practice, they have echoed colonial precedent by privi- leging Stone Town and ignoring Ng’ambo—designating only the former as “historic”—despite the fact that both parts of the city...

... A. 2008. Fugitive Visions: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Colla, Elliott. 2008. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Culp, Robert. 2007. Articulating Citizenship...

... University Press. Dmaskos, Dmitris, and Dmitris Platzos, eds. 2008. A Singular Antiquity: Archae- ology and Hellenic Identity in Twentieth-Century Greece. Athens: Benaki Museum. Ermakoff, Ivan. 2008. Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press...

... The Experts, in which the semiotic multivocality of the late Soviet symbolic field is especially prominent. “Young Shepherd with Cucumber” begins in the Moscow International Air- port customs office. Young Shepherd with Cucumber, a painting legally bought by a foreign tourist from a Moscow antique store...

...Elliott Colla © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Elliott Colla teaches comparative literature at Brown University. He recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Conflicted Antiquities,” which is a study of the figures of Egyptian antiquities in classical Arabic literature, European...

...) is enough to demolish or irreparably harm buildings and ancient sites. The grotesque irony is that when the war is over, what might be left of the great legacy of Iraqi antiquity will be in the display cases of museums in the so- called Allied countries. Why aren’t any of those museums featuring major...