Ancestral images : the iconography of human origins /
Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed eve...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The artist's eye and the mind of science
- Mythological visions of human creation
- Religious and secular visions of human creation
- Historical visions of national origins
- The scientific vision of prehistory
- Popular presentations
- Conclusions.