Anadenanthera Colubrina
Analysing Activity Patterns
ancestral
Ancestral Beings
Atacama Desert
bark
Bark Paintings
beings
Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
Body Painting
Body Painting Designs
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Ciudad Vieja
cultural heritage interpretation
Domesticated Camelids
Early Formative Period
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ethnographic art research
gures
human
identity formation archaeology
indigenous art analysis
Island Tierra Del Fuego
Late Archaic Period
Late Postclassic
non-Aboriginal Audience
paintings
Palaeolithic Rock Art
portable
Portable Art
prehistoric symbolism
rock
Rock Art
Rock Art Sites
Rock Paintings
Serpent Hill
shelters
sites
social identity visual representation
Tierra Del Fuego
visual culture studies
Western Arnhem Land
Wild Camelids
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781598742657
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.
Edited by Domingo Sanz, Inés; Fiore, Dánae; May, Sally K
