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Ex Voto: Votive Giving Across Cultures (Bard Graduate Center - Cultural Histories of the Material World) di — Bard Graduate Center

Derived from Latin ex voto suscepto “in pursuance of a vow,” an ex voto embodies the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the person who deposits it. Almost anything, regardless of size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. Ultimately, the category refers to a subset of the material world in which a thing is not necessarily made to be a votive, but instead becomes ...