Image and Response in Early Europe

by: Wells, P.S.

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Image and response in early Europe

Author:Peter S. Wells

Summary:Did people in the Iron Age see their bronze figurines and sculpted stones differently from the way we see them today? How can we approach the problem of determining how they saw things? How different was their experience viewing these objects in the course of their use, from ours as we look at them in museum cases or through photographs in books?" "Recent research in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology forms the theoretical basis for a new approach to understanding the visual basis of communication in early Europe. The focus is on societies from the Early Iron Age to the early medieval period in temperate Europe, at the time that traditions of writing were gradually being adopted in this part of the world. Following review of the most relevant results of new experiments and observations in those sciences, Peter S. Wells examines the visual aspects of the archaeological evidence to investigate the role that visuality - the visual quality of things - played in the expression of the self, in interaction between members of social groups, in ritual activity, and in the creation and experience of cultural landscapes.

Series:
Duckworth debates in archaeology

Contents:
Image and response in Early Europe
Vision, visuality, visual images
Structuring visuality
Images for individuals
Images for the group
Images for magic and religion
Images in landscapes
Images and visuality

Subjects:

500-1000
800 b.C.-500 a.C
Europa
Europe
Geschichte 600 v. Chr.-800
Historical sociology
Historische Soziologie
Historisk sociologi
History
Iron age
Iron age Europe
Material culture
Perception visuelle Aspect psychologique
Perception visuelle Aspect social
Sociologie historique
To 1500
Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology Europe History To 1500
Visual culture
Visual perception Psychological aspects
Visual perception Social aspects
Visual perception sociala aspekter
Visual sociology
Visual sociology Europe History To 1500
Visuell antropologi historia Europa till 1500
Visuell perception psykologiska aspekter
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
historical sociology

Image and Response in Early Europe

by: Wells, P.S.

• ISBN-13: 9780715636824 / 978-0-7156-3682-4
• ISBN-03: 0715636820 / 0-7156-3682-0
• Duckworth, London, 2008

Price: 23,00 EURO

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