Robin Osborne

The many assumptions about current library outreach services-that they're off-site, depend on special funding, and are administered by specific staff-no longer reflect the realities of providing equitable library services to the audiences who most need them. Providing equity of access is the business of every department in the library. Growing from the leadership initiative of 2003-4 ALA President Carla Hayden, this multifaceted guide answers both...

Art's Agency and Art History re-articulates the relationship of the anthropology of art to key methodological and theoretical approaches in art history, sociology, and linguistics. Explores important concepts and perspectives in the anthropology of art. Includes nine groundbreaking case studies by an internationally renowned group of art historians and art theorists. Covers a wide range of periods, including Bronze-Age China, Classical Greece, Rome,...

This sophisticated volume, authored by leading archaeologists and historians of the classical world, is designed to encourage critical thinking about the role of ancient material culture in modern times and the role of modern preoccupations in shaping the study of ancient material. Comprised of paired essays--one covering the Greek world, the other, the Roman--that stimulate a dialogue not only between the two ancient cultures, but between scholars...