02911nam 22006494a 450 991082840520332120200520144314.01-134-52776-40-203-68666-71-280-05278-30-203-64745-9(CKB)1000000000247707(EBL)200051(OCoLC)437060053(SSID)ssj0000289065(PQKBManifestationID)11218621(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289065(PQKBWorkID)10384651(PQKB)11352698(MiAaPQ)EBC200051(Au-PeEL)EBL200051(CaPaEBR)ebr10098983(CaONFJC)MIL5278(EXLCZ)99100000000024770720030924d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn archaeology of images iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe /Miranda Aldhouse-Green1st ed.London ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (302 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51846-6 0-415-25253-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-273) and index.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; IndexUsing 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 placiIconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman EuropeArt, CelticSymbolism in artIron ageEuropeArt, Celtic.Symbolism in art.Iron age709/.3715.30bclAldhouse-Green Miranda J(Miranda Jane)156170MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828405203321An archaeology of images4033809UNINA