Karl Schlogel’s In Space We Read Time is a unique book, both path breaking and stocktaking at the same time. Following the “spatial turn” in historiography in the 1980s and 90s but also following his
In the late nineteenth century, the growing discipline of anthropology was both a powerful tool of colonial control and an ideological justification for it. As European empires and their commercial re
Today, China’s classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and
In early twentieth-century Berlin, the museumsdebate was set into motion with Wilhelm von Bode’s sweeping proposal to reorganize a group of the city’s museums. Between 1907 and 1910, two p
Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also c
The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving
