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Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity /

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 stylist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Domingo Sanz, Inés, Fiore, Dánae, May, Sally K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, ©2008.
Colección:One world archaeology ; 55.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity in rock art, portable art, and body art / Inés Domingo Sanz, Dánaue Fiore, and Sally K. May
  • Space and discourse as constituents of past identities : the case of Namibian rock art / Tilman Lenssen-Erz
  • Rocks of ages : petroglyphs, pictographs, and identity in Puerto Rico / Peter G. Roe and Michele H. Hayward
  • Rock art, modes of production, and social identities during the early formative period in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) / Francisco Gallardo and Patricio De Souza
  • From the form to the artists : changing identities in Levantine rock art (Spain) / Inés Domingo Sanz
  • Memoried sacredness and international elite identities : the late postclassic at La Casa de las Golondrinas, Guatemala / Eugenia J. Robinson
  • Same tradition, different views : the Côa Valley rock art and social identity / Luís Luís and Marcos García Díez
  • Learning art, learning culture : art, education, and the formation of new artistic identities in Arnhem Land, Australia / Sally K. May
  • Eagle's reach : a focal point for past and present social identity within the northern Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia / Paul S.C. Taçon [and others]
  • Panache and protocol in Australian Aboriginal art / Claire Smith
  • Body painting and visual practice : the creation of social identities through image making and display in Tierra del Fuego (southern South America) / Dánae Fiore.