Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things: shifting contexts of material culture through time and space

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives.

Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering effects. ...