Cultures Of Stone
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Cultures Of Stone
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Author : Gabriel Cooney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Cultures Of Stone written by Gabriel Cooney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Archaeology categories.
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. 0Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place. 0This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.
A Culture Of Stone
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Author : Carolyn J Dean
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-21
A Culture Of Stone written by Carolyn J Dean and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-21 with History categories.
A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully integrated into Inka architecture, exquisitely worked masonry, and freestanding sacred rocks, explaining how certain stones took on lives of their own and played a vital role in the unfolding of Inka history. Examining the multiple uses of stone, she argues that the Inka understood building in stone as a way of ordering the chaos of unordered nature, converting untamed spaces into domesticated places, and laying claim to new territories. Dean contends that understanding what the rocks signified requires seeing them as the Inka saw them: as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred. Through careful analysis of Inka stonework, colonial-period accounts of the Inka, and contemporary ethnographic and folkloric studies of indigenous Andean culture, Dean reconstructs the relationships between stonework and other aspects of Inka life, including imperial expansion, worship, and agriculture. She also scrutinizes meanings imposed on Inka stone by the colonial Spanish and, later, by tourism and the tourist industry. A Culture of Stone is a compelling multidisciplinary argument for rethinking how we see and comprehend the Inka past.
Culture Of Stone
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Author : O. W. Hampton
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1999
Culture Of Stone written by O. W. Hampton and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.
In this unique study, Hampton describes the complete cultural inventory of both secular and sacred stones, ranging from utilitarian stone tools and profane symbolic stones to symbolic spirit stones, power stones with multiple functions, and medicinal power stone tools.
Stone Tools As Cultural Markers
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Author : R. V. S. Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Stone Tools As Cultural Markers written by R. V. S. Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Social Science categories.
Papers presented to a symposium at the 1974 meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Affairs.
Cultures Of Stone
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Author : Gabriel Cooney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Cultures Of Stone written by Gabriel Cooney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with categories.
This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place. This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.
Soils Stones And Symbols Cultural Perceptions Of The Mineral World
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Author : Nicole Boivin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Soils Stones And Symbols Cultural Perceptions Of The Mineral World written by Nicole Boivin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Law categories.
Ethnographic and archaeological records feature a rich body of data suggesting that understandings of the mineral world are in fact both culturally variable and highly diverse. Soils, Stones and Symbols highlights studies from the fields of anthropology, archaeology and philosophy that demonstrate that not all individuals and societies view minerals as commodities to be exploited for economic gain, or as passive objects of disembodied scientific enquiry. In visiting such diverse contexts as contemporary India, colonial-period Australia and prehistoric Europe and the Americas, the papers in this volume demonstrate that in pre-industrial societies, minerals are often symbolically meaningful, ritually powerful, and deeply interwoven into not just economic and material, but also social, cosmological, mythical, spiritual and philosophical aspects of life. In addressing the theme of the mineral world, this book is not only unique within the social and geo-sciences, but also at the forefront of recent attempts to demonstrate the importance of materiality to processes of human cognition and sociality. It draws upon theoretical developments relating to meaning, experience, the body, and material culture to demonstrate that studies of rock art, landscapes, architecture, technology and resource use are all linked through the minerals that constantly surround us and are the focus of our never-ending attempts to understand and transform them.
Technological Choices
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Author : Pierre Lemonnier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Technological Choices written by Pierre Lemonnier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in technology itself. Of course, this revolutionary viewpoint has critical implications for contemporary Western societies. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, Technological Choices moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies as well as several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, Technological Choices offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.
The Neolithic Cultures Of The British Isles
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Author : Stuart Piggott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01
The Neolithic Cultures Of The British Isles written by Stuart Piggott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01 with categories.
The Influence Of Culture On Human Resource Management Processes And Practices
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Author : Dianna L. Stone
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2008
The Influence Of Culture On Human Resource Management Processes And Practices written by Dianna L. Stone and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
It is clear that organizations are becoming more culturally diverse, and a better understanding of multiculturism and its impact on organizations is needed. This book, with contributions from expert academics, is designed to motivate both the further development of models concerned with the influence of cultural diversity on several Human Resource Management processes and practices and the design and conduct of empirical research on the same topic. It primarily focuses on processes and practices that occur at three general phases; the pre-hire phase, the selection phase, and the post-hire phase. An improved understanding of the roles that culture plays in such processes and practices should contribute to both the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and the performance and well-being of their members. This edited book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students in industrial and organizational psychology, human resource management, sociology of work, and cultural diversity within organizations. It can provide a central resource in classes on organizational psychology, strategic human resource management, and global issues in human resource management. Professionals and practitioners who increasingly interact with organizational issues at the global level will find this book essential to their work.
Claiming The Stones Naming The Bones
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Author : Elazar Barkan
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2003-01-09
Claiming The Stones Naming The Bones written by Elazar Barkan and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-09 with Art categories.
These fourteen essays address controversies over a variety of cultural properties, exploring them from perspectives of law, archeology, physical anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnomusicology, history, and cultural and literary study. The book divides cultural property into three types: Tangible, unique property like the Parthenon marbles; intangible property such as folktales, music, and folk remedies; and communal "representations," which have lead groups to censor both outsiders and insiders as cultural traitors.