The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 April 2017
- ISBN 9780199675616
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages960 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 2050 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 273 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.
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Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field.
The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation.
Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.
Table of Contents:
Part 1. Introduction
Miniature Possibilities: An Introduction to the Varied Dimensions of Figurine Research
The Archaeology of Figurines and the Human Body in Prehistory
Comparative Perspectives in the Interpretation of Prehistoric Figurines
Part 2. Africa
Predynastic Egyptian Figurines
Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan
The Sahara
Southern Africa
West Africa
Equatorial Africa
Part 3. The Americas
Caribbean
Mesoamerica - Maya
Mesoamerica - Olmec
Mesoamerica - Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines
Aztec Figurines
North America - Southwest
Figurines and Figural Art of the Northwest Coast
Inuguat: Prehistoric Human Figurines in the North American Arctic
South America - Andes
Figurine Traditions from the Amazon
Part 4. Asia
Anatolia
Prehistoric Figurines in China: The Deep History of Figurative Imagery in China
South Asia - Indus Civilization
Anthropomorphic Clay Figurines of the Jomon Period of Japan
Clay Ideas: Levantine Neolithic Figurine Trajectories and Intellectual Threads
Figurines in Prehistoric Mesopotamia
From a Bird's Eye View: Prehistoric Human Figurines from Iran
Part 5. Australasia and the Pacific
Wooden Figurines of Easter Island
Part 6. Europe
Cycladic Figurines
Minoan and Mycenaean Figurines
Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe
Neolithic Eastern and Central Europe
Figurines of Malta
Mediterranean - Cyprus
Prehistoric Figurines in Italy
Mediterranean - Sardinia
Southeast European Neolithic Figurines: Beyond Context, Interpretation, and Meaning
Palaeolithic Western and North Central Europe
Neolithic Figurines of Western Europe
