Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity
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Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity
（One world archaeology, 55）
Left Coast Press, 2009, c2008
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First paperback edition 2009" -- T. p. verso
Contents of Works
- Archaeologies of art : time, place, and identity in rock art, portable art, and body art / Inés Domingo Sanz, Dánae Fiore, and Sally K. May
- Space and discourse as constituents of past identities : the case of Namibian rock art / Tilman Lenssen-Erz
- Rocks of ages : petroglyphs, pictographs and identity in Puerto Rico / Peter G. Roe and Michele H. Hayward
- Rock art, modes of production, and social identities during the early formative period in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) / Francisco Gallardo and Patricio De Souza
- From the form to the artists : changing identities in levantine rock art (Spain) / Inés Domingo Sanz
- Memoried sacredness and international elite identities : the late postclassic at La Casa de las Golondrinas, Guatemala / Eugenia J. Robinson
- Same tradition, different views : the Côa Valley rock art and social identity / Luís Luís and Marcos García Díez
- Learning art, learning culture : art, education, and the formation of new artistic identities in Arnhem Land, Australia / Sally K. May
- Eagle's reach : a focal point for past and present social identity within the northern Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, Australia / Paul S.C. Taçon ... [et al.]
- Panache and protocol in Australian Aboriginal art / Claire Smith
- Body painting and visual practice : the creation of social identities through image making and display in Tierra del Fuego (southern South America) / Dánae Fiore
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Description
This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.
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