Approaching monumentality in archaeology
By: edited by James F. Osborne
Series: The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series; IEMA proceedings -- Volume 3
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9781438453255
Subjects: Monuments; History; Archaeology; Symbolism in architecture; Architecture and society; Urban anthropology
Description: Monumentality is a human phenomenon that has occurred in nearly all times and places. Because of its ubiquity, monumentality is something that has been studied by a large number of disciplines and individuals. 'Approaching monumentality in archaeology' explores the phenomenon of monumental art and architecture from humankinds most ancient past to recent history, and does so using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates the research of anthropological archaeologists, art historians, classicists, and sociologists working in a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts. The volume seeks to define what is meant by the terms monument and monumentality, and to understand the social and political significance of monument-building as it has manifested around the world. By advocating for a relational approach to the topic that seeks to find monumentality in the ongoing relationship between object and person, this book offers the opportunity to begin the process of uniting these varied interests into a unified discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monuments and monumentality / James F. Osborne; title: PART I. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION. Elamite monumentality and architectural scale : lessons from Susa and Choga Zanbil / Daniel T. Potts; title: Patronage and reception in the monumental architecture of early Christian Greece / William R. Caraher; title: The monumentality of text / Edmund Thomas; title: Building monuments, creating communities : early monumental architecture at pre-pottery neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich, and Klaus Schmidt; title: PART II. MONUMENTS AND LANDSCAPE. Monuments and landscape : exploring issues of place, distance and scale in early political contest / Claudia Glatz; title: Roman soliloquies : monumental interventions in the vacant landscape in the late republic and early empire / Álvaro Ibarra; title: Monumentality among the Mediterranean Isles / Michael J. Kolb; title: 4100-2700 B.C. : monuments and ideologies in the neolithic landscape / Johannes Müller; title: PART III. MONUMENTS AND MEMORY WORK. Planning for the past in neolithic Central Europe / Peter Bogucki; title: Death and the city : Asiatic columnar sarcophagi in context / Annetta Alexandridis; title: Function and impact of monumental grave vases in the eighth century B.C. / Dietrich Boschung; title: Mobile monumentality : the case of obelisks / Grant Parker; title: PART IV. MONUMENTS, SETTLEMENTS, AND CITIES. Citadels in spectacle-scapes in Bronze Age Turkey / Christoph Bachhuber; title: The phenomenon of residential cities and city foundations in the ancient Near Rast : common idea or individual cases? / Mirko Novák; title: Modern monumentality : European experiences / Göran Therborn; title: PART V. THE EXPERIENCE OF MONUMENTS. The creation and experience of monumentality on protohistoric Cyprus / Kevin D. Fisher; title: Performance and monumentality in the "Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta" / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper; title: Visualizing the dynamics of monumentality / Willeke Wendrich; title: From memorials to imaginaries in the monumentality of ancient North America / Timothy R. Pauketat.