Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
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"The … essays were selected in order to produce a broad polyfocal perspective that includes a variety of geographical (also non-western) milieus, motivations, [and] social and economic circumstances … The questions raised … address a wide range of collecting categories … [providing] a wealth of refreshing perspectives on the topic. In particular, through focusing on "merchants as collectors" … [the volume explores] an anthropological dimension of the practice of collecting: When is a collection a collection? … What about the collection as a warehouse? The answers to [these questions] can be as diverse as the case studies here, like the reading of Early Modern Merchants as Collectors teaches … The questions themselves will not become obsolete."
--Michael Wenzel, Frühneuzeit-Info
"The … essays were selected in order to produce a broad polyfocal perspective that includes a variety of geographical (also non-western) milieus, motivations, [and] social and economic circumstances … The questions raised … address a wide range of collecting categories … [providing] a wealth of refreshing perspectives on the topic. In particular, through focusing on "merchants as collectors" … [the volume explores] an anthropological dimension of the practice of collecting: When is a collection a collection? … What about the collection as a warehouse? The answers to [these questions] can be as diverse as the case studies here, like the reading of Early Modern Merchants as Collectors teaches … The questions themselves will not become obsolete."
--Michael Wenzel, Frühneuzeit-Info
Christina M. Anderson is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Faculty, and Research Fellow in the Study of Collecting at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK.