An Archaeology of Images: Iconology and Cosmology in Iron Age and Roman Europe

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Pub. Date: 2004-04-30
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Using archaeology, social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, this book takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Images in Action
Image and Identity: Personhood, Self and Other
Imaging Gender: Iconographies of Difference
Materiality and Meaning
Thinking with Beasts
Dreaming Monsters and Shamanic Shape-Shifters
Paths of Perception: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling
Resistant Iconographies: Post-Colonial Perspectives
Postscript: Images Unlocked?
References
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