The Origins of Monsters : : Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction / / David Wengrow.
It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Rostovtzeff Lectures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) :; 10 halftones. 23 line illus. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff
- 2. Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture
- 3. The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art
- 4. Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals
- 5. Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts
- 6. Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective
- Conclusion. Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition
- Notes
- References
- Index