Beschreibung:
Using archaeology, social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, this book takes a fresh look at how ancient images of both people and animals were used in the Iron Age and Roman societies of Europe, 600 BC to AD 400.
Preface 1. Introduction: Images in Action 2. Image and Identity: Personhood, Self and Other 3. Imaging Gender: Iconographies of Difference 4. Materiality and Meaning 5. Thinking with Beasts 6. Dreaming Monsters and Shamanic Shape-Shifters 7. Paths of Perception: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Telling 8. Resistant Iconographies: Post-Colonial Perspectives Postscript: Images Unlocked? References