Author: Jay Johnston
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN: 9781781793381
Category : Archaeology and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a timely and innovative evaluation of the interdisciplinary dialogue between religious studies and archaeology. Investigating the core concepts of materiality, perception, ritual and agency the volume redefines conceptual categories and argues for the need of 'critical bewilderment' as a unique scholarly practice. The pioneering intersubjective methodology brings together recent developments in religious aesthetics, theoretical archaeology and cultural studies. Taking as its focus 'troublesome' objects and places - those deemed ambiguous in purpose and meaning - the individual case studies contribute new knowledge to a range of areas including the archaeology of shamanism, contemporary art and early medieval Norse and Insular material culture. Stag and Stone offers useful insights to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the areas of heritage and cultural studies, theoretical archaeology, animal studies, religious studies and art history.
Stag and Stone
Author: Jay Johnston
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN: 9781781793381
Category : Archaeology and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a timely and innovative evaluation of the interdisciplinary dialogue between religious studies and archaeology. Investigating the core concepts of materiality, perception, ritual and agency the volume redefines conceptual categories and argues for the need of 'critical bewilderment' as a unique scholarly practice. The pioneering intersubjective methodology brings together recent developments in religious aesthetics, theoretical archaeology and cultural studies. Taking as its focus 'troublesome' objects and places - those deemed ambiguous in purpose and meaning - the individual case studies contribute new knowledge to a range of areas including the archaeology of shamanism, contemporary art and early medieval Norse and Insular material culture. Stag and Stone offers useful insights to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the areas of heritage and cultural studies, theoretical archaeology, animal studies, religious studies and art history.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN: 9781781793381
Category : Archaeology and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a timely and innovative evaluation of the interdisciplinary dialogue between religious studies and archaeology. Investigating the core concepts of materiality, perception, ritual and agency the volume redefines conceptual categories and argues for the need of 'critical bewilderment' as a unique scholarly practice. The pioneering intersubjective methodology brings together recent developments in religious aesthetics, theoretical archaeology and cultural studies. Taking as its focus 'troublesome' objects and places - those deemed ambiguous in purpose and meaning - the individual case studies contribute new knowledge to a range of areas including the archaeology of shamanism, contemporary art and early medieval Norse and Insular material culture. Stag and Stone offers useful insights to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the areas of heritage and cultural studies, theoretical archaeology, animal studies, religious studies and art history.
The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals
Author: Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019027283X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior in the Iron Age. But before him and, in a sense, behind him was a female power, half animal, half human. From her came permission to hunt the animals of the taiga, and by her they were replenished. She was, in other words, the source of the hunter's success. The stag was a latecomer to this tale, a complex symbol of death and transformation embedded in what ultimately became a struggle for priority between animal mother and hero hunter. From this region there are no written texts to illuminate prehistory, and the hundreds of burials across the steppe reveal little relating to myth and belief before the late Bronze Age. What they do tell us is that peoples and cultures came and went, leaving behind huge stone mounds, altars, and standing stones as well as thousands of petroglyphic images. With The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer uses that material to reconstruct the prehistory of myth and belief in ancient North Asia. Her narrative places monuments and imagery within the context of the physical landscape and by considering all three elements as reflections of the archaeology of belief. Within that process, paleoenvironmental forces, economic innovations, and changing social order served as pivots of mythic transformation. With this vividly illustrated study, Jacobson-Tepfer brings together for this first time in any language Russian and Mongolian archaeology with prehistoric representational traditions of South Siberia and Mongolia in order to explore the non-material aspects of these fascinating prehistoric cultures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019027283X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior in the Iron Age. But before him and, in a sense, behind him was a female power, half animal, half human. From her came permission to hunt the animals of the taiga, and by her they were replenished. She was, in other words, the source of the hunter's success. The stag was a latecomer to this tale, a complex symbol of death and transformation embedded in what ultimately became a struggle for priority between animal mother and hero hunter. From this region there are no written texts to illuminate prehistory, and the hundreds of burials across the steppe reveal little relating to myth and belief before the late Bronze Age. What they do tell us is that peoples and cultures came and went, leaving behind huge stone mounds, altars, and standing stones as well as thousands of petroglyphic images. With The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer uses that material to reconstruct the prehistory of myth and belief in ancient North Asia. Her narrative places monuments and imagery within the context of the physical landscape and by considering all three elements as reflections of the archaeology of belief. Within that process, paleoenvironmental forces, economic innovations, and changing social order served as pivots of mythic transformation. With this vividly illustrated study, Jacobson-Tepfer brings together for this first time in any language Russian and Mongolian archaeology with prehistoric representational traditions of South Siberia and Mongolia in order to explore the non-material aspects of these fascinating prehistoric cultures.
The Art of Deer-stalking
Author: William Scrope
Publisher:
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Category : Deer hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Deer hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Flint Chips
Author: Edward Thomas Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 940
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Glacier Garden, Lucerne
Author: Albert Heim
Publisher:
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Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Publisher:
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Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Nature Lovers Library
Author:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Mammals of other lands
Author:
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Mammals of Other Lands
Author: Charles John Cornish
Publisher:
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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