Archaeologies of Art

Time, Place, and Identity
Herausgeber: Domingo Sanz, Inés; May, Sally K; Fiore, Dánae

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781598742657
• ISBN-10: 1598742655
• Artikelnr.: 26837737

Autorenporträt

Edited by Domingo Sanz, Inés; Fiore, Dánae; May, Sally K

Inhaltsangabe

1: Archaeologies of Art: Time
Place
and Identity in Rock Art
Portable Art
and Body Art; 2: Space and Discourse as Constituents of Past Identities - The Case of Namibian Rock Art; 3: Rocks of Ages: Petroglyphs
Pictographs
and Identity in Puerto Rico; 4: Rock Art
Modes of Production
and Social Identities during the Early Formative Period in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile); 5: From the Form to the Artists: Changing Identities in Levantine Rock Art (Spain); 6: Memoried Sacredness and International Elite Identities: The Late Postclassic at La Casa de las Golondrinas
Guatemala; 7: Same Tradition
Different Views: The Côa Valley Rock Art and Social Identity; 8: Learning Art
Learning Culture: Art
Education
and the Formation of New Artistic Identities in Arnhem Land
Australia; 9: Eagle's Reach: A Focal Point for Past and Present Social Identity within the Northern Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
Australia; 10: Panache and Protocol in Australian Aboriginal Art; 11: Body Painting and Visual Practice: The Creation of Social Identities through Image Making and Display in Tierra del Fuego (Southern South America)