Archaeology of Images - Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

Zusatztext '[Aldhouse Green] is to be congratualted on bringing together such a wide ranger of examples of iconographic art ... The book is well-written and readable.' - Britannia Informationen zum Autor Miranda Aldhouse Green is Professor of Archaeology at University of Wales College! Newport. Her main research interests are in the material culture of ritual and religion in the European Iron Age and western Roman provinces. Her previous publications include Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art ! Exploring the World of the Druids! and Dying for the Gods. Klappentext "An Archaeology of Images" takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe! 600 BC to AD 400. Zusammenfassung Using archaeology, social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, this book takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction: Images in Action 2. Image and Identity: Personhood, Self and Other 3. Imaging Gender: Iconographies of Difference 4. Materiality and Meaning 5. Thinking with Beasts 6. Dreaming Monsters and Shamanic Shape-Shifters 7. Paths of Perception: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling 8. Resistant Iconographies: Post-Colonial Perspectives Postscript: Images Unlocked? References

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• Autori: Miranda Aldhouse Green, Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Miranda J. Green
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.04.2004
• EAN: 9780415252539
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25253-9
• Pagine: 302
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Roman style