Miranda Aldhouse Green

An Archaeology of Images (eBook, ePUB)

Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134527762
• Artikelnr.: 49376184

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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