ARCHAEOLOGIES OF ART: TIME, PLACE, AND IDENTITYInés Domingo Sanz, Dánae Fiore, Sally K May This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 13 |
Time Place and Identity in Rock Art Portable Art and Body Art | 15 |
2 Space and Discourse As Constituents of Past Identities The Case of Namibian Rock Art | 29 |
Petroglyphs Pictographs and Identity in Puerto Rico | 51 |
4 Rock Art Modes of Production and Social Identities during the Early Formative Period inthe Atacama Desert Northern Chile | 79 |
Changing Identities in Levantine Rock Art Spain | 99 |
The Late Postclassic at La Casa de lasGolondrinas Guatemala | 131 |
The Côa Valley Rock Art and Social Identity | 151 |
Art Education and the Formation of New Artistic Identities in ArnhemLand Australia | 171 |
A Focal Point for Past and Present Social Identity within the Northern Blue MountainsWorld Heritage Area Australia | 195 |
10 Panache and Protocol in Australian Aboriginal Art | 215 |
The Creation of Social Identities through Image Making and Displayin Tierra del Fuego Southern South America | 243 |
About the Contributors | 267 |
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