Prehistoric figurines
Subtitle: representation and corporeality in the neolithic
By: Douglass W. Bailey.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon. [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Figurines, Prehistoric -- Balkan Peninsula.; Balkan Peninsula -- Antiquities.
Description: This book explores the ways that people use representations of human bodies to make subtle political points and to understand their own identities and to negotiate their relationships with friends and enemies. The author moves the debate past the interpretations of figurines as Mother-Goddess and investigates individual prehistoric figurines in their original archaeological contexts and in terms of modern exploitations of the human form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Miniaturism and dimensionality; title: Hamangia; title: Anthropomorphism : dolls, portraits and body parts; title: Cucuteni-tripolye; title: Visual rhetoric, truth and the body; title: Thessalian; title: Subverting and manipulating reality; title: Corporeal politics of being in the neolithic.