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Ayesha Fuentes

2014 MA in Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, UCLA/Getty Conservation Training Program
2011 MA in Art History, Tufts University
2003 BA in Art/Religion, Williams College


Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: ayesha.fuentes@gmail.com

Subfield

Conservation

Research Interests

Human remains; Arts and monuments of South and Central Asia; Social history of conservation; Cultural heritage management in post-conflict regions

Publications

2011 "Utilizing terror: On the adoption and refinement of Indian and Tibetan skull bowls." Tufts Univ. Dept. of Art History, (unpublished).
2011 "The story of art history at Tufts." Medford, MA: Tufts University.

Grants and Awards

2011-12 Graduate Opportunity Fellow, UCLA
2011 Rhonda Saad Award in Art History, Tufts University

Conference Presentations

2011 "Kapala as icon: representing authority in an eighteenth century thangka." Guest lecturer, Tufts Univ. Dept of Religion.
2011 "Utilizing terror: On the changing forms of Tibetan skull bowls." Graduate Symposium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
2010 "Utilizing terror: On the changing forms of Tibetan skull bowls." Mark Roskill Symposium at U-Mass Amherst.
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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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