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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglass W Bailey |
| ISBN: | 041533151X 9780415331517 0415331528 9780415331524 9780203392454 0203392450 |
| OCLC Number: | 56686499 |
| Description: | xix, 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Miniaturism and dimensionality -- Hamangia -- Anthropomorphism : dolls, portraits and body parts -- Cucuteni/tripolye -- Visual rhetoric, truth and the body -- Thessaly -- Subverting and manipulating reality -- Corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic. |
| Responsibility: | Douglass W. Bailey. |
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<p>?There is certainly much of interest here, Many of the sources that Bailey brings to bear are completely novel to existing scholarship on prehistoric figurines, and they yield some real insights. The book itself is engagingly written and well illustrated. Discussions of the diverse sources make for a lively read.? ? Cambridge Archaeological Journal<p>'Whatever you know about prehistoric figurines, this book will open your eyes and make you think... Bailey halps the reader all the way, with a meticulously constructed tect, written in an absorbing style; it combines some closely observed descriptions of the forms of figurines with comprehensive syntheses of their archaeological contexts, critical reviews of previous studies and interpretations, accessible explanations of complex ideas about human representation, and a selection of photographs and line drawings that work actively alongside the text... this is an outstanding book, because it poses so many thought-provoking questions abo Read more...
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- Heykelcikler, Tarih öncesi -- Balkan Yarımadası
- Balkan Yarımadası -- Eski eserler.
- Figurines, Prehistoric -- Balkan Peninsula.
- Balkan Peninsula -- Antiquities.
- Archeologie.
- Neolithicum.
- Plastieken.
- Statuettes.
- Neolithikum.
- Figurine.
- Balkanhalbinsel.
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