Cultures of stone : an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone /

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This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and st...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cooney, Gabriel (Editor ), Gilhooly, Bernard (Editor ), Kelly, Niamh (Editor ), Mallía-Guest, Sol (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]
Temas:
Archaeology > History.
Stone > Social aspects.
Archéologie > Histoire.
Pierre > Aspect social.
Archaeology
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • List of figures
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Constructing identities through stone
  • Part one
  • The relationship between stone and life in the 19th- and 20th-century quarry town of Texas, Maryland
  • Adam Fracchia
  • Egyptian stones for the imperial metropolis, and beyond
  • Hazel Dodge
  • Local marble as a potential inspiration for producing limestone exchange valuables in palau, micronesia
  • Bosiljka Glumac, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
  • Models of sculpture production in the early middle ages (8th-9th centuries AD)
  • Michelle Beghelli
  • Making, Building and Re-imagining in Stone
  • Contemporary prehistoric stone-tool design
  • Dov Ganchrow
  • The oratory of power through form and materiality
  • Suzanne O'Neill
  • Stone fisheries and their role in shaping the cultural landscape of the Minho River Valley, Portugal
  • Rui Madail, Miguel Malheiro
  • Dialectics of impermanence in Josef Sudek's Prague
  • Adele Tutter
  • Encountering the prehistoric past in West Cornwall
  • Elizabeth Pratt
  • Preserving the Downpatrick High Cross
  • Michael King
  • Stone in Ritual Space and Practice
  • Symbolism in Irish round towers
  • Sarah Kerr
  • The materiality of fire and flames on Roman cinerary urns
  • Liana Brent
  • Stone-grave building at the cemetery of Les Tombes at Estagel (Pyrénées-Orientales, France)
  • Joan Pinar Gil
  • A case study of the cult of Apollo and Zeus
  • Erica Angliker
  • Hermes and the stone cairn in Greek Antiquity
  • Jessica Doyle
  • The significance and meaning of stone artefacts and their sources to Aboriginal People in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
  • Edward M. McDonald, Bryn Coldrick
  • Ethnographic analogies for the ritual use of rock crystal
  • Thomas Hess
  • Afterword: The flexibility of stone
  • Gabriel Cooney
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