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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783841803321

Autore

Bailey Douglass W (Douglass Whitfield), <1963, >

Titolo

Prehistoric figurines : representation and corporeality in the Neolithic / / Douglass W. Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-32329-8

1-134-32330-1

1-280-24388-0

9786610243884

0-203-39245-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

949.6

Soggetti

Figurines, Prehistoric - Balkan Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula Antiquities

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. 217-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Miniaturism and dimensionality -- Hamangia -- Anthropomorphism : dolls, portraits and body parts -- Cucuteni/tripolye -- Visual rhetoric, truth and the body -- Thessaly -- Subverting and manipulating reality -- Corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic.

Sommario/riassunto

Fully illustrated, Prehistoric Figurines brings a radical new approach to one of the most exciting, but poorly understood artefacts from our prehistoric past. Studying the interpretation of prehistoric figurines from Neolithic southeast Europe,  Bailey introduces recent developments from the fields of visual culture studies and cultural anthropology, and investigates the ways in which representations of human bodies were used by the pre-historic people to understand their own identities, to negotiate relationships and to make subtle political points.Bailey examines four critic