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Open House 2010

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What Public Event
When May 08, 2010
from 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Where Fowler Buildling, UCLA
Contact Name Helle Girey
Contact Email
Contact Phone (310) 794-4837
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Cotsen Institute Open House 2010

Once a year, the Cotsen Institute hosts an Open House, where students, families, and archaeology enthusiasts can come learn about the research that goes on at its many labs and archives.

Come out on Saturday, May 8 to hear Cotsen Institute scholars discuss their work and show off artifacts from their collections. Visitors can also check out multimedia presentations, children's activities, and much more!

 

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The Construction of Value

Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

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