Ancient Alterity in the Andes: A Recognition of Others

ISBN-13: 9780415519212 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 280 str.

George Lau

Opis

This title explores ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. The book showcases this concept by illustrating how people visualized others in the past, and how it coloured their engagements with them, both physically and cognitively.

Spis treści

1. Recognising Others: an Introduction  2. Region, Art and Society and during the Early Intermediate Period  3. Familiar Others: Kin, Collectivity and Authority  4. Predatorial Relations 5. The Dead and the Living  6. Conclusions

O autorze

George Lau is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, UK.