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

• Autore: Bailey Douglass W (Douglass Whitfield), <1963->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Disciplina: 949.6
• Soggetto topico: Figurines, Prehistoric - Balkan Peninsula
• Soggetto geografico: Balkan Peninsula Antiquities
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Prehistoric figurines
• ISBN: 1-134-32329-8; 1-134-32330-1; 1-280-24388-0; 9786610243884; 0-203-39245-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807404503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II