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An archaeology of images : iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

Author: Miranda J Aldhouse-Green
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Miranda J Aldhouse-Green
ISBN: 0415252539 9780415252539 9780203647455 0203647459 9780415518468 0415518466
OCLC Number: 53099015
Description: xix, 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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?
Other Titles: Iconology and cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe
Responsibility: Miranda Aldhouse-Green.
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"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It is clear that the deposition of images in temples or graves may not have been the only meaningful episode of their biographies; one image may have undergone a number of life experiences during its existence in society."--Jacket.

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