Luminous debris : reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc

• Autore: Sobin Gustaf
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 15 b/w photographs, 8 line illustrations, 1 map
• Disciplina: 936.4
• Soggetto topico: Archaeology and history - France, Southern; France; Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology
• Soggetto geografico: France, Southern Antiquities
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Silex -- Terra Amata -- Reading Prehistory: THE SEARCH FOR ANTECEDENTS -- The First Hunters and the Last -- Neolithicizing Provence CARDIAL, A CULTURE THAT CAME FROM THE SEA -- Archeological Rhetoric -- Moon Goddess SPECULATIONS ON A PICTOGRAPH -- The Skull with the Seashell Ear -- West-Southwest -- A Twilight Industry -- Stelae THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN FIGURATION -- PART II Bronze, and Soon After, Iron -- On a Bronze Age Earring -- Echoes in Clay INTERPRETING PICTOGRAPHS IN LATE BRONZE AGE CERAMICS -- Baby Burials DOMESTIC INHUMATION IN THE IRON AGE -- Terremare -- On the Longevity of Toponyms -- The Cult of Skulls FROM SEVERANCE TO SCULPTURE -- PART III Under the Raised Trellises -- Negative Architecture -- Undulant-Oblique A STUDY OF WAVE PATTERNS ON IONICO-MASSALIAN POTTERY -- Tracking Hannibal -- What the Thunder Said -- Aeria the Evanescent -- Votive Mirrors A REFLECTION -- Dream Incubation THE TEMPLE AT RIEZ -- Fervor and Residue CHASTELARD-LARDIERS -- Le Pont Flavien AN INSTANCE OF PASSAGE -- PART IV Aquaeductus -- Aquaeductus -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern in Massiolite ceramic are more than archival curiosities for Sobin. Instead they invite inquiry and speculation on existence itself: Artifacts are read as realia, and history as an uninterrupted sequence of object lessons.As much travel writing as meditative discourse, Luminous Debris is enhanced by a prose that tracks, questions, and reflects on the materials invoked. Sobin engages the reader with precise descriptions of those very materials and the messages to be gleaned from their examination, be they existential, ethical, or political.An American expatriate living in Provence for the past thirty-five years, Gustaf Sobin shares his enthusiasm for his adopted landscape and for a vertical interpretation of its strata. In Luminous Debris he creates meaning out of matter and celebrates instances of reality, past and present.
• Titolo autorizzato: Luminous debris : reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc
• ISBN: 0-520-92453-3; 0-585-28772-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495873103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II