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    Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory by Knight, Jr, Vernon James;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 29 October 2012

    • ISBN 9781107022638
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages214 pages
    • Size 235x160x12 mm
    • Weight 490 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 45 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis.

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    Long description:

    This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr begins with an historiographical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.

    "Knight offers a revolutionary departure from earlier studies, and at the same time advances an extraordinary and timely contribution forged from the best that art history and archaeology have to offer the iconographic study of American Indian symbolic forms. Significantly, the author advances 18 essential principles or propositions critical to the rigorous analysis and interpretation of iconographic forms, and these alone will undoubtedly prompt new directions and revolutionary new interpretations in New World prehistory. Essential." --Choice

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Preliminaries: an iconography of prehistoric images; 2. Style; 3. Form and referent; 4. Configurational analysis; 5. Ethnographic analogy; 6. The logic of iconographic method in prehistory.

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