Author: J. Mark Williams
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817309128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Collects 15 essays concerning the archaeological culture of the Swift Creek people, a culture centered in Georgia and surrounding states from AD 100 to 700. While little is known of the Swift Creek culture's language and social rules, their social interactions are documented using analysis of the stamps used to decorate their intricately patterned pots, as well as through their extraordinary wood carvings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Michael Gaudio
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648468
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype of North American Indians for European and Euro-American readers. In this innovative analysis, Michael Gaudio explains how popular engravings of Native American Indians defined the nature of Western civilization by producing an image of its “savage other.” Going beyond the notion of the “savage” as an intellectual and ideological construct, Gaudio examines how the tools, materials, and techniques of copperplate engraving shaped Western responses to indigenous peoples. Engraving the Savage demonstrates that the early visual critics of the engravings attempted-without complete success-to open a comfortable space between their own “civil” image-making practices and the “savage” practices of Native Americans-such as tattooing, bodily ornamentation, picture-writing, and idol worship. The real significance of these ethnographic engravings, he contends, lies in the traces they leave of a struggle to create meaning from the image of the American Indian. The visual culture of engraving and what it shows, Gaudio reasons, is critical to grasping how America was first understood in the European imagination. His interpretations of de Bry’s engravings describe a deeply ambivalent pictorial space in between civil and savage-a space in which these two organizing concepts of Western culture are revealed in their making. Michael Gaudio is assistant professor of art history at the University of Minnesota.
Author: Alice Scovell Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972984607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Princess Elizabeth of Graycliff and Prince Edward of Whitehill have been bound to marry each other by the terms of a magical stone engraving. If they do not marry by their sixteenth birthday, only six days away, they will turn to stone. Moments before the wedding, they meet and discover they detest each other. With the clock ticking, they set out to find a stonecutter to release them from the dreadful enchantment. Along their journey, they encounter many treacherous traps and learn a lot about life and themselves.
Author: Tom Turpin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873416795
Category : Engraving (Metalwork)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This reference provides the time-saving tools medical transcriptionists need to confirm or determine which drug is being referred to in dictation, cross reference a generic or brand name drug, and find specialized information about groups of drugs. As a companion to Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book, it allows the user to cross-reference a brand name drug to its corresponding generic drug names, investigational code names, indications/approved uses, street slang (cross-referenced to approved drug names), HazMat (hazardous materials), and drug manufacturers/distributors.
Author: Ben van den Bercken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088905063
Category : Gems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.
Author: John Physick
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Katina T. Lillios
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292778104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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In the late 1800s, archaeologists began discovering engraved stone plaques in Neolithic (3500-2500 BC) graves in southern Portugal and Spain. About the size of one's palm, usually made of slate, and incised with geometric or, more rarely, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic designs, these plaques have mystified generations of researchers. What do their symbols signify? How were the plaques produced? Were they worn during an individual's lifetime, or only made at the time of their death? Why, indeed, were the plaques made at all? Employing an eclectic range of theoretical and methodological lenses, Katina Lillios surveys all that is currently known about the Iberian engraved stone plaques and advances her own carefully considered hypotheses about their manufacture and meanings. After analyzing data on the plaques' workmanship and distribution, she builds a convincing case that the majority of the Iberian plaques were genealogical records of the dead that served as durable markers of regional and local group identities. Such records, she argues, would have contributed toward legitimating and perpetuating an ideology of inherited social difference in the Iberian Late Neolithic.
Author: Paweł Gołyźniak
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789695406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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This book studies small but highly captivating artworks from antiquity – engraved gemstones. These objects had multiple applications, and the images upon them captured snapshots of people's beliefs, ideologies, and everyday occupations. They provide a unique perspective on the propaganda of Roman political leaders, especially Octavian/Augustus.
Author: P J Lyons
Publisher: Zonderkidz
ISBN: 0310755352
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Love surrounds you, beauty, too. Notice how God blesses you! Clap your hands, shout and sing: Thank you, Lord, for everything. A comfortable and relaxing rhyme tells the story of God’s great blessings in this sweet book. P.J. Lyons’ engaging text and Tim Warnes’ playful illustrations remind readers how much they have to be thankful for.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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