Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the NeolithicRoutledge, 3 nov 2005 - 256 pagina's 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. |
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Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic Douglass Whitfield Bailey Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic Douglass Bailey Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic Douglass Whitfield Bailey Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2005 |
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Achilleion anthropomorphic archaeology Balkan Neolithic Barbie Berciu Bolomey bone bonsai breasts buildings burials buttocks carnival cemetery ceramic Cernavoda Chapter child clay contexts created Cucuteni decoration depicted deposition Dimini discussion Disneyland dolls Drăguşeni Dumeşti Durankulak examples excavation face female fragment Gallis and Orphanidis Georgia O’Keeffe 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 MarinescuBȋlcu meaning Medgidia modelled Monah neck Neolithic figurines painted paradox particular patterns perhaps PetrescuDȋmbovița phases photographs pits Plateia Pogosheva 1985 cat political portrait potential pots PreCucuteni prehistoric pubic triangle reality relationships representation represented ritual Romania scale Scânteia Selevac Sesklo settlement sexual body significance similar Sitagroi social sociopolitical Soufli spectator Spondylus structures suggests Tagg Thessalian figurines Thessaly threedimensional Tȋrpeşti Todorova Truşeşti understanding Vajsov viewer village Vinča culture visual culture women