Australian Rock Art

Informationen zum Autor Daniele Spinetti is a software architect living in Rome. He is an Embarcadero MVP. Delphi/Object Pascal is his favorite tool/programming language, and he is a lead and active member of several projects in the open source community. In his tutoring activities (conferences and training), he likes to talk about innovative topics in software architectures. He's a huge fan of design patterns and TDD. Klappentext A survey of Australian rock art, presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities. Zusammenfassung A survey of Australian rock art! presenting detailed case studies revealing the significance of both recent and ancient art for Australia's living indigenous communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Anthropological and archaeological approaches to Australian rock art; 2. Rock art and indigenous religion; 3. Rock art as an expression of secular and subversive themes; 4. Rock art and the colonial impact; 5. Putting statements in their cultural context; 6. Figure and motif; 7. Stylistic variations in time and space; 8. Rock art and human adaptation in Australia; Appendices; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Layton, Layton Robert
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521125789
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12578-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Australia, ART / History / General, Art of indigenous peoples, ART / Australian & Oceanian, History of Art, Relating to indigenous peoples, Indigenous styles