Rock Art and the Wild Mind: Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138090538 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 438 str.

Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Opis

Rock Art and the Wild Mind presents a study of Mesolithic rock art on the Scandinavian Peninsula, which often depicts human confrontation with big game and can be explained as a product of the Mesolithic mind "in action". In the final stages of the Mesolithic this ‘animic’ rock art eventually gives way to a ‘totemic’ style and it is suggested that this can be interpreted as representing an increased focus on human society. This will interest students of rock art as well as scholars working on the historical developments of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe. It will also appeal to students and academics in the fields of art history, aesthetics and the work of Lévi-Straus.

Spis treści

0/ ARCHAIC MEETINGS – A PROLOGUE; 1/ OBJECT AND OBJECTIVES; 2 / THE SETTING; 3/ NORTHERN EUROPEAN HUNTERS’ ROCK ART – PRODUCTS OF THE ‘WILD MIND’ IN ACTION; 4 / THE ‘KEY MOTEME’ AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS: VISUAL PATHS OF A LATE MESOLITHIC ANALOGICAL LOGIC; 5 / MEDIATING NATURE AND CULTURE OR, BODY DESIGN IN THE EASTERN NORWEGIAN GROUP OF HUNTERS’ ROCK ART; 6 / DESIGN PATTERNS AS AN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM OF REFERENCES; 7 / APPROACHING ROCK ART THROUGH ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM; 8/ "MEASURING" THE TOTEMIC IMPACT; 9/ THE MAPPING OF DESIGN PATTERNS OR, FRAGMENTS OF A TOTEMIC GEOGRAPHY; 10/ THE LATE MESOLITHIC ’LINES OF CONTACT’; 11 / LATE MESOLITHIC SEXE IN ROCK ART; 12 / ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM THROUGH TIME, AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYMBOLIC GIFT

O autorze

Ingrid Fuglestvedt is a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.