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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783734103321

Autore

Aldhouse-Green Miranda J (Miranda Jane)

Titolo

An archaeology of images [[electronic resource] ] : iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe / / Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-52776-4

0-203-68666-7

1-280-05278-3

0-203-64745-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Classificazione

15.30

Disciplina

709/.37

Soggetti

Art, Celtic

Symbolism in art

Iron age - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: images in action; Image and identity: personhood, self and other; Imaging gender: iconographies of difference; Materiality and meaning; Thinking with beasts; Dreaming monsters and shamanic shape-shifters; Paths of perception: ways of seeing, ways of telling; Resistant iconographies: post-colonial perspectives; Postscript: images unlocked?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images 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 and investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued.The book challenges the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped, and reveals them instead as active artefacts designed to be used, handled and broken. It is made clear that the placi