Animals into Art

Howard Morphy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317598077
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989.

Index

Note that references to figures are printed in italic type.

Abchand 357, 361, 363

Abelam 7

Abnaki 195

Abo Table 11.1

Abri de Rochedane 231

Abri Murat 42, 220

Abri Pataud 445

abstraction 24, 133

Adamgarh 357, 363

Addaura 122

aesthetics 2, 7, 9, 27, 305, 367, 380

Africa

eastern xiii, 161–78

northern 343–56

southern 180, 435, 441

aggregation, group 445, 451

Agualinda cemetery 84

Air 348, 355–6

Akakous Oued 346

Altamira 24, 38, 112, 122, 124, 127, 440, 442, 452, 4.16, 4.18

Alteriac 51.n.8

Altxern 27, 35

ambiguity

in Micmac thought 197

in roadrunner tracks 256, 264

perceptual 181, 183, 184, 186

ambiguity, in art xii, 5, 8

Palaeolithic 28–9, 33, 115, 118, 122, 125, 132, 134

America, North

eastern Canada 9, 193–214

northeastern USA 11, 301–17

northwestern USA 7, 424

southwestern USA 10, 13, 253–69, 417–39

America, South

Chile 10, 390–416

Colombia 75–106

Anasazi 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• List of colour plates
• Preface
• Introduction
• A Question of Identity
• Representations
• Compositions: Frequencies and Scenes
• The Meanings of the Motifs
• Interpreting the System
• Index