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Interpreting ancient figurines : context, comparison, and prehistoric art / / Richard G. Lesure



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Autore: Lesure Richard G. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Interpreting ancient figurines : context, comparison, and prehistoric art / / Richard G. Lesure Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 738.8/209
Soggetto topico: Figurines, Ancient
Art - Historiography
Art and anthropology
Art and society
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Interpreting ancient figurines  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-511-99411-7
1-107-21491-2
0-511-99191-6
0-511-99291-2
9786613050151
0-511-98912-1
1-283-05015-3
0-511-98733-1
0-511-99091-X
0-511-97337-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810166603321
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