Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place, and Identity (One World Archaeology) (Volume 55) - Hardcover

9781598742640: Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place, and Identity (One World Archaeology) (Volume 55)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598742647 ISBN 13: 9781598742640

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.

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About the Author:

In�s Domingo Sanz is postdoctoral fellow at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), supported by an “Excellence Post-doctoral Fellowship” from the Generalitat Valenciana. She is Graduate (1998) and Doctor in History (2005) by the Universitat de Val�ncia (Spain) (with an area of expertise in Prehistory and Archaeology), where she was awarded with the Doctorate Extraordinary Award in 2006. Her research in Australia focuses on the territorial and social aspects of Indigenous rock art from Arnhem Land. In Spain she focuses on style and digital recording of Levantine rock art.

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