An Archaeology of Images : Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415252539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Opis

An Archaeology of Images takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400.

Recenzje

'[Aldhouse Green] is to be congratualted on bringing together such a wide ranger of examples of iconographic art ... The book is well-written and readable.' – Britannia

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction: Images in Action  2. Image and Identity: Personhood, Self and Other  3. Imaging Gender: Iconographies of Difference  4. Materiality and Meaning  5. Thinking with Beasts  6. Dreaming Monsters and Shamanic Shape-Shifters  7. Paths of Perception: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling  8. Resistant Iconographies: Post-Colonial Perspectives  Postscript: Images Unlocked?  References

O autorze

Miranda Aldhouse Green is Professor of Archaeology at University of Wales College, Newport. Her main research interests are in the material culture of ritual and religion in the European Iron Age and western Roman provinces. Her previous publications include Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art , Exploring the World of the Druids, and Dying for the Gods.