The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals : Image, Monument, and Landscape in Ancient North Asia.
The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780190202378 (electronic bk.)
9780190202361
9780190202361
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İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0186
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
©2015.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (448 pages)
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals: Image, Monument, and Landscape in Ancient North Asia -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- 1: The Transformation of Image, Object, and Belief in Prehistoric North Asia -- The Beginning: The Guardian of the Road to the Land of the Dead -- The Background to this Study -- Signifying Structures and the Reconstruction of Archaic Belief -- The Physical Context -- The Cultural Context -- Resources for the Study of the Early Nomads and Their Predecessors -- Conclusion -- 2: The Appearance of the Animal Mother -- The Tradition of Rivers and Taiga -- The Tradition of the Steppe -- Carved monoliths: masks and beasts -- Carved slabs: masks and beasts -- Cattle, carts, and female images -- Cultural Enigmas and Methodological Problems -- The Ideological Shaping of Siberian Cultural Studies -- Cultural Studies and the Problem of Interpreting Imagery -- Returning to Signifying Structures -- 3: The Persistence of Liminal Beings -- Masks of the Upper Yenisei Drainage -- The Spirit Figures of Karakol -- The Bird-Women of Kalbak-Tash -- The Liminal beings of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor -- Masks of the Oigor Gol drainage -- The Spirit Figures of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor -- The Persistence of Liminal Beings -- 4: The Mother of Animals -- The Birthing Woman -- The Hunter, the Hunt, and the Birthing Woman -- The Hunt, the Woman at the Side of the Hunt, and the Couple in Sexual Embrace -- The woman and the couple in sexual embrace as signs of well-being -- The Beginning of the End -- 5: The Emergence of Pictorial Narrative -- The Appearance of the Human Being as Central Actor: Real Worlds, Mythic Worlds -- The creation of symbolic landscapes -- The absence of death and dying -- The Structure of Pictorial Narrative -- The Reinvention of the Female Presence.
6: Intimations of Death and Transformation -- The Appearance of the Wheeled Vehicle -- The Woman at the Threshold between Life and Death -- The Wolf as Predator -- The Disappearance of the Stag -- The deformation of the stag -- The subordination of the stag to the human form -- The stag as a sign of aggression -- From stag into wolf -- The End of Liminal Beings -- 7: The End of Naturalism in Nomadic Art -- Social and Cultural Background: The Adoption of Riding -- Emerging Signs of Wealth and Status: Khirigsuur and Burial Mounds -- The Finds at Arzhan: The Death of Naturalism -- 8: The Pivot Between Life and Death -- The Ornamental Signs of Death and Transformation -- Burials after Arzhan and the Order of Regalia -- Tuekta -- Bashadar -- Pazyryk -- Pazyryk period burials from the Ukok Plateau and Berel' -- Commoner burials of the Pazyryk culture -- Nomadic Materials from the China Borderlands -- The Siberian Treasure of Peter the Great -- The Tree of Life, the Cosmic Axis -- 9: Traces of Ancient Beliefs -- Problems in the Use of Ethnographic Sources -- The Ket -- The Evenks -- Ket and Evenk Preshamanic Cults -- Mountain cults -- Bear cults -- Nature and clan cults -- Protective household spirits -- Ket Mythic Traditions -- Evenk Mythic Traditions -- Shamanic Traditions -- 10: The Archaeology of Belief -- The Logic of the Physical World -- The Archaeology of Belief -- The Imagery of Belief -- The End of Mythic Time -- Appendix: The Dating of Rock Art -- Execution and Definition -- Subject Matter -- Style -- Patina (Recoloration of the Stone) -- Overlay and Juxtaposition -- A Case Study -- References -- Index.
6: Intimations of Death and Transformation -- The Appearance of the Wheeled Vehicle -- The Woman at the Threshold between Life and Death -- The Wolf as Predator -- The Disappearance of the Stag -- The deformation of the stag -- The subordination of the stag to the human form -- The stag as a sign of aggression -- From stag into wolf -- The End of Liminal Beings -- 7: The End of Naturalism in Nomadic Art -- Social and Cultural Background: The Adoption of Riding -- Emerging Signs of Wealth and Status: Khirigsuur and Burial Mounds -- The Finds at Arzhan: The Death of Naturalism -- 8: The Pivot Between Life and Death -- The Ornamental Signs of Death and Transformation -- Burials after Arzhan and the Order of Regalia -- Tuekta -- Bashadar -- Pazyryk -- Pazyryk period burials from the Ukok Plateau and Berel' -- Commoner burials of the Pazyryk culture -- Nomadic Materials from the China Borderlands -- The Siberian Treasure of Peter the Great -- The Tree of Life, the Cosmic Axis -- 9: Traces of Ancient Beliefs -- Problems in the Use of Ethnographic Sources -- The Ket -- The Evenks -- Ket and Evenk Preshamanic Cults -- Mountain cults -- Bear cults -- Nature and clan cults -- Protective household spirits -- Ket Mythic Traditions -- Evenk Mythic Traditions -- Shamanic Traditions -- 10: The Archaeology of Belief -- The Logic of the Physical World -- The Archaeology of Belief -- The Imagery of Belief -- The End of Mythic Time -- Appendix: The Dating of Rock Art -- Execution and Definition -- Subject Matter -- Style -- Patina (Recoloration of the Stone) -- Overlay and Juxtaposition -- A Case Study -- References -- Index.
Özet, vb.
Offers a stunning archaeological and art historical exploration of the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia.
Konu
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Asia.
Electronic books.
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