Proceedings of the symposim, entitled 'Image and imagination: material beginnings' at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge, 13-17 September 2005. "This volume is published as part of the 'Roots of Spirituality' project funded by the John Templeton Foundation at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Figurines, meaning and meaning-making in early Mesoamerica / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Representing the global record -- The earliest imagery around the globe / Paul G. Bahn -- Mountains and miniatures : representing humans in Neolithic Europe 5000-2000 BC / Chris Scarre -- Modes of explanation for prehistoric imagery : juggling universalist, historicist, and contextualist approaches in the study of early figurines / Richard G. Lesure -- Avenues of interpretation -- Art, language and the evolution of spirituality / Robert Layton -- Upper Palaeolithic anthropomorph images of northern Eurasia / Jiří A. Svoboda -- New questions of old hands : outlines of human representation in the Palaeolithic / Iain Morley -- Images of animality : hybrid bodies and mimesis in early prehistoric art / Dušan Borić -- Figurines, meaning and meaning-making in early Mesoamerica / Rosemary A. Joyce -- The Imagery and social relationships : shifting identity and ambiguity in the Neolithic / Ian Kuijt & Meredith S. Chesson -- Monumentality and presence / Colin Renfrew -- Figurines, social context and process -- Refiguring the corpus at Çatalhöyük / Lynn Meskell -- The splendour of women : late Neolithic images from central Anatolia / Mary M. Voight -- The chaîne opératoire approach to prehistoric figurines : an example from Dolnoslav, Bulgaria / Bisserka Gaydarska, John Chapman, Ana Raduncheva & Bistra Koleva -- The emergence of anthropomorphic representation in the Japanese archipelago : a social systemic perspective / Koji Mizoguchi -- Representation, regions and power -- Abstract and figurative representation and the politics of display in Neolithic southeast Italy / Robin Skeates -- Imagery and social relationships : shifting identity and ambiguity in the Neolithic / Ian Kuijt & Meredith S. Chesson -- Incorporating figuration and spirituality / F. LeRon Shults. The emergence of figuration in prehistoric Peru / Richard L. Burger -- Early figuration in northwest Argentina : materiality, iconography, and the uses of imagery / Elizabeth DeMarrais -- Early figuration in China : ideological, social and ecological implications / Li Liu -- Refiguring perceptions of perception -- Before and beyond representation : towards an enactive conception of the Palaeolithic image / Lambros Malafouris -- A note on representations and archaeology : evolution and interpretation / Evangelos Kyriakidis -- Neuroarchaeology and the origin of representation in the Grotte de Chauvet / John Onians -- Relating representation and religion -- The worship and destruction of images / Robert A. Hinde -- Images and the biological origins of religion / Donald M. Broom -- Incorporating figuration and spirituality / F. LeRon Shults.
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