Author: Elena VăcărescuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Bard of the Dimbovitza
Author: Elena VăcărescuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Sketch
Author: The Sketch
Author: Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe
Author: Daniela HofmannPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461452899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters are arranged chronologically so that authors can address differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones. To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the following considerations: construction materials and architectural characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Daisy in Exile
Author: Daisy WhitePublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642107645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Fontainbleu, outside Paris, is almost as far from country Australia - spiritually and geographically - as a schoolgirl can get. But that is where Margaret Isabel White, known as Daisy, found herself for the final years of her education. This intensely personal account of her teenage life has been thoughtfully annotated by editor Riviere.
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The Speaker
Author: Body Parts and Bodies Whole
Author: Katharina Rebay-SalisburyPublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables. This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts. Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations.
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd