Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the NeolithicPsychology Press, 2005 - 243 pages Fully illustrated, Prehistoric Figurines brings a radical new approach to one of the most exciting, but poorly understood artefacts from our prehistoric past. Studying the interpretation of prehistoric figurines from Neolithic southeast Europe, Bailey introduces recent developments from the fields of visual culture studies and cultural anthropology, and investigates the ways in which representations of human bodies were used by the pre-historic people to understand their own identities, to negotiate relationships and to make subtle political points. Bailey examines four critical conditions: * figurines as miniatures * figurines as three-dimensional representations * figurines as anthropomorphs * figurines as representations. Through these conditions, the study travels beyond the traditional mechanisms of interpretation and takes the debate past the out-dated interpretations of figurines as Mother-Goddess as Bailey examines individual prehistoric figurines in their original archaeological contexts and views them in the light of modern exploitations of the human form. Students and scholars of History and Archaeology will benefit immensely from Bailey's close understanding of the material culture and pre-history of the Balkans. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Miniaturism and dimensional | 26 |
Hamangia | 45 |
Anthropomorphism dolls portraits and body parts | 66 |
CucuteniTripoyle | 88 |
Visual rhetoric truth and the body | 122 |
Thessaly | 147 |
Subverting and manipulating reality | 181 |
Corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 217 |
236 | |
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Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic Douglass Whitfield Bailey Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Achilleion anthropomorphic Archaeology Balkan Neolithic Barbie Berciu Bolomey bone bonsai breasts buildings burials buttocks carnival cemetery ceramic Cernavoda Chapter clay communities contexts created Cucuteni Cucuteni/Tripolye decoration depicted deposition Dimini discussion dolls Drăguşeni Dumeşti Durankulak examples excavation face female fragment Gallis and Orphanidis Gimbutas Goddess groups Haaland Hamangia figurines Haşotti head human body ibid identity imagery images important individual interpretation Kotsakis landscape legs looking Magoula Makriyalos male Mantu Marija Gimbutas Marinescu-Bîlcu material meaning Medgidia modelled Monah neck Neolithic figurines Orphanidis 1996 painted paradox particular patterns perhaps Petrescu-Dîmbovița phases photographs pits Plateia Pogosheva 1985 cat political portrait potential pots PreCucuteni pubic triangle reality relationships representation represented ritual Romania scale Selevac Sesklo settlement sexual body significance similar Sitagroi social Soufli spectator Spondylus structures suggests Tagg Thessalian Thessalian figurines Thessaly three-dimensional Tîrpeşti Todorova Tripolye Truşeşti understanding Upper Palaeolithic Vajsov viewer village Vinča culture women