03243nam 22007092 450 991081016660332120151005020622.00-511-99411-71-107-21491-20-511-99191-60-511-99291-297866130501510-511-98912-11-283-05015-30-511-98733-10-511-99091-X0-511-97337-3(CKB)3190000000006284(SSID)ssj0000461197(PQKBManifestationID)11319828(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000461197(PQKBWorkID)10483621(PQKB)10273176(MiAaPQ)EBC647427(Au-PeEL)EBL647427(CaPaEBR)ebr10442892(CaONFJC)MIL305015(OCoLC)700706251(UkCbUP)CR9780511973376(EXLCZ)99319000000000628420101011d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInterpreting ancient figurines context, comparison, and prehistoric art /Richard G. Lesure1st ed.Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2011.1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-19745-7 1-107-69117-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Universalist explanation and prehistoric figures -- Comparison and context -- The questions we ask of images -- A cross-cultural explanation for female figurines? -- Mesoamerican figurines and the contextualist appeal to universal truths -- Figurines, goddesses, and the texture of long-term structures in the Near East -- On figurines, femaleness, and comparison.This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art. Sometimes figurines from one context are perceived to resemble those from another. Richard G. Lesure asks whether such resemblances play a role in our interpretations. Early interpreters seized on the idea that figurines were recurringly female and constructed the fanciful myth of a primordial Neolithic Goddess. Contemporary practice instead rejects interpretive leaps across contexts. Dr Lesure offers a middle path: a new framework for assessing the relevance of particular comparisons. He develops the argument in case studies that consider figurines from Paleolithic Europe, the Neolithic Near East and Formative Mesoamerica.Figurines, AncientArtHistoriographyArt and anthropologyArt and societyFigurines, Ancient.ArtHistoriography.Art and anthropology.Art and society.738.8/209Lesure Richard G.1043434UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910810166603321Interpreting ancient figurines3961887UNINA