Prehistoric Eskimo Ivories
Author : Allen Wardwell
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Eskimo sculpture
ISBN :
Author : Allen Wardwell
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Eskimo sculpture
ISBN :
Author : Allen Wardwell
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : T. Max Friesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199766959
Despite its extreme climate, the North American Arctic holds a complex archaeological record of global significance. In this volume, leading researchers provide comprehensive coverage of the region's cultural history, addressing issues as diverse as climate change impacts on human societies, European colonial expansion, and hunter-gatherer adaptations and social organization.
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0199675619
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.
Author : Feng Qu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1527564320
This book introduces readers to the belief and symbolism present in the prehistoric art of the Bering Strait region. For about a century, the archaeology of this area has mainly focused on material, economic, and technological perspectives, leaving studies of prehistoric spirituality, religion, and cosmology to be under-conceptualized. This text questions the nature of materiality, and the relationship between it and spirituality. It employs an analytical and methodological approach located within the frameworks of practice theory and animist ontologies to open up thought-provoking avenues for interpretive possibility. This book also provides new knowledge about the prehistoric material culture of ancient Inuit people, and offers an assessment of contemporary archaeological theories, such as cognitive archaeology, structural archaeology, and shamanism theory, in order to examine the reliability of these theories in the studies of prehistoric art. According to the ontological trend which has constituted a powerful challenge to traditional nature/culture and body/mind dichotomies, this book reconsiders prehistoric Inuit cultures, providing an analysis of therianthropic motifs on prehistoric ivories to explore potential shamanism within ontological and cosmological structures.
Author : Allen Papin McCartney
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772820687
Ten Thule house ruins were excavated during 1968 and 1969 at Silumiut, Kamarvik, and Igluligardjuk, major winter settlements along Roes Welcome Sound and northwestern Hudson Bay. Radiocarbon dating places the occupation of these sites at the end of the twelveth century A.D. This work expands Mathiassen’s original investigation of Thule culture southward from Repulse Bay.
Author : Susan W. Fair
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1889963798
The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.
Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136786805
With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
Author : Anna Prentiss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441906827
Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density urban settlements and complex polities that characterize much of today’s world. The chapters in the volume examine the dynamic interaction between the micro- and macro-scales of cultural evolution, developing a theoretical approach to the archaeological record that has been termed evolutionary processual archaeology. The contributions in this volume integrate positive elements of both evolutionary and processualist schools of thought. The approach, as explicated by the contributors in this work, offers novel insights into topics that include the emergence, stasis, collapse and extinction of cultural patterns, and development of social inequalities. Consequently, these contributions form a stepping off point for a significant new range of cultural evolutionary studies.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :