The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey (eBook, ePUB)

From Prehistory to the Present
Redaktion: Wallis, Robert J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record.

From their depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are particularly concerned with looking beyond the culture-nature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and other post-humanist thinking on human-raptor ontologies and epistemologies. The contributors recognize that human-raptor relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality, and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a productive re-framing of questions about human-raptor interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of prey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350268012
• Artikelnr.: 68379368

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Wallis is Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art History at the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction (Robert J. Wallis
The Open University
UK) Part 1 The Materiality of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey 1. Raptors as companions: comparative deep-time forays in multispecies archaeology (Shumon T. Hussain
Aarhus University
Denmark) 2. Gods
Kings and Offerings: Raptors in Ancient Egypt (Salima Ikram
American University in Cairo
Egypt) 3. Ghosthawk Worldings: Raptor Haruspicy During the North European Bronze Age (Joakim Goldhahn
University of Western Australia
Australia) Part 2 Visualising Human Relations with Raptors 4. Golden Eagles: Raptor Imagery Biographies in Kazakhstan During the Early First Millennium BCE. (Kenneth Lymer
Independent Scholar
UK) 5. Visual Hybridity
Political Power and Cultural Contest: Kitan Liao (916-1125 CE) and Jurchen Jin (1115-1234 CE) Textiles with Falconry-Related Imagery (Leslie Wallace
Coastal Carolina University
USA) 6. 'The Falcon-Cloak Whistled': Bird Fibulae
Falconry and Powerful Women in Seventh Century Scandinavia (Kristina Jennbert
Lund University
Sweden) Part 3 Post-Humanist Ontologies of Human-Raptor Relations 7. Relating to Raptors: The 'upper part of a hawk's head and beak' in a Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age 'Beaker' Grave
Driffield
East Yorkshire (Robert J. Wallis
The Open University
UK) 8. Raptors in Precolumbian North America: An Ontology of Art (Max Carocci
The American University in London
UK) 9. Birds of Prey in Ancient Amazonia: Predation and Perspective in Ceramic Iconography (Cristiana Barreto
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Brazil
and Marcony Alves
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil) 10. 'Now I Am a Bird
and Now I Am a Man': Post-humanism
Raptors and the Rus' (Neil Price
University of Uppsala
Sweden) Part 4 Indigenous Knowledges of Birds of Prey 11. Birds of Prey
'Our Mothers' and Women of Power: The 'Spirit Bird of Night' Masquerade in Yoru`bä Art and Thought (Henry John Drewal
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA) 12. Pouakai: Rock Drawings of Haast's Eagle or New Zealand's Legendary Bird? (Gerard O'Regan and Emma Burns
Tuhura Otago Museum
New Zealand
and Te Maire Tau
University of Canterbury
New Zealand) 13. Ancestors
Messengers and 'Good Country': Birds of Prey
Rock Art and Indigenous Knowledge in the Kimberley
Northwest Australia (Ana Paula Motta and Martin Porr
University of Western Australia
Australia)