Interpreting ancient figurines [electronic resource] : context, comparison, and prehistoric art / Richard G. Lesure.
2011
NB70 .L47 2011eb
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Interpreting ancient figurines [electronic resource] : context, comparison, and prehistoric art / Richard G. Lesure.
Author
Lesure, Richard G.
ISBN
9780511992919 (electronic bk.)
0511992912 (electronic bk.)
9780511989124 (electronic bk.)
0511989121 (electronic bk.)
9780521197458
0521197457
0511992912 (electronic bk.)
9780511989124 (electronic bk.)
0511989121 (electronic bk.)
9780521197458
0521197457
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 256 p.) : ill., maps.
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NB70 .L47 2011eb
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738.8/209
Summary
"This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art. Sometimes figurines from one context are perceived to resemble those from another. Richard G. Lesure asks whether such resemblances play a role in our interpretations. Early interpreters seized on the idea that figurines were recurringly female and constructed the fanciful myth of a primordial Neolithic Goddess. Contemporary practice instead rejects interpretive leaps across contexts. Dr. Lesure offers a middle path: a new framework for assessing the relevance of particular comparisons. He develops the argument in case studies that consider figurines from Paleolithic Europe, the Neolithic Near East, and Formative Mesoamerica"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art. Sometimes figurines from one context are perceived to resemble those from another. Richard G. Lesure asks whether such resemblances play a role in our interpretations. Early interpreters seized on the idea that figurines were recurringly female and constructed the fanciful myth of a primordial Neolithic Goddess. Contemporary practice instead rejects interpretive leaps across contexts. Dr. Lesure offers a middle path: a new framework for assessing the relevance of particular comparisons. He develops the argument in case studies that consider figurines from Paleolithic Europe, the Neolithic Near East, and Formative Mesoamerica"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-250) and index.
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Table of Contents
Universalist explanation and prehistoric figures
Comparison and context
The questions we ask of images
A cross-cultural explanation for female figurines?
Mesoamerican figurines and the contextualist appeal to universal truths
Figurines, goddesses, and the texture of long-term structures in the Near East
On figurines, femaleness, and comparison.
Comparison and context
The questions we ask of images
A cross-cultural explanation for female figurines?
Mesoamerican figurines and the contextualist appeal to universal truths
Figurines, goddesses, and the texture of long-term structures in the Near East
On figurines, femaleness, and comparison.