Wells How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4477-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Peter S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

Part I: Theory and Method

Chapter 1: Of Monsters and Flowers 1

Chapter 2: Seeing and Shaping Objects 18

Chapter 3: The Visual Worlds of Early Europe 34

Chapter 4: Frame, Focus, Visualization 52

Part II: Material: Objects and Arrangements

Chapter 5: Pottery: The Visual Ecology of the Everyday 72

Chapter 6: Attraction and Enchantment: Fibulae 99

Chapter 7: Status and Violence: Swords and Scabbards 112

Chapter 8: Arranging Spaces: Objects in Graves 131

Chapter 9: Performances: Objects and Bodies in Motion 155

Chapter 10: New Media in the Late Iron Age: Coins and Writing 176

Part III: Interpreting the Patterns

Chapter 11: Changing Patterns in Objects and in Perception 188

Chapter 12: Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns 200

Conclusion

Chapter 13: The Visuality of Objects, Past and Present 222

Bibliographic Essay 231

References Cited 249

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Peter S. Wells is professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His many books include Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered and The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Princeton).