Joakim Goldhahn

Birds in the Bronze Age

A North European Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides new insights about the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. It argues that birds as well as humans have an agency of their own which was contemplated in everyday practices as well as in histories, legends, myths and Bronze Age cosmologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 111g
• ISBN-13: 9781108499095
• ISBN-10: 1108499090
• Artikelnr.: 55394539

Autorenporträt

Joakim Goldhahn is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. An internationally known author on the Bronze Age in northern Europe, he has published more than twenty books and anthologies, as well as and numerous articles on topics such as Northern European rock art, Bronze Age burial rituals, bronze and stone smiths as ritual specialists, and war and memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Liftoff: 1. Strange birds
2. Bird divination in the ancient world
3. The Hvidegard burial revisited
Part II. Birdscapes: 4. Bronze birds
5. Birds of the living
6. Birds of the dead
7. Birds of the rocks
Part III. Intra-actions: 8. Rethinking Bronze Age worldings
9. The animacy of the rocks
10. Bird intra-actions
11. Cave birds: becoming bird.