In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least so

The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated, collected, exhibited and per

This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also

The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct.

On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere. Susan Pearce looks at the way we