Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic

Fully illustrated, Prehistoric Figurines brings a radical new approach to one of the most exciting, but poorly understood artefacts from our prehistoric past. Studying the interpretation of prehistoric figurines from Neolithic southeast Europe, Bailey introduces recent developments from the fields of visual culture studies and cultural anthropology, and investigates the ways in which representations of human bodies were used by the pre-historic people to understand their own identities, to negotiate relationships and to make subtle political points. Bailey examines four critical conditions: * figurines as miniatures * figurines as three-dimensional representations * figurines as anthropomorphs * figurines as representations. Through these conditions, the study travels beyond the traditional mechanisms of interpretation and takes the debate past the out-dated interpretations of figurines as Mother-Goddess as Bailey examines individual prehistoric figurines in their original archaeological contexts and views them in the light of modern exploitations of the human form. Students and scholars of History and Archaeology will benefit immensely from Bailey's close understanding of the material culture and pre-history of the Balkans.

Arts & Photography

Bailey, Douglass

History & Criticism

Routledge

It is a tumultuous period in feudal Japan. The samurai have wrested power from the emperor, and the nobles are conniving to take it back. The protestant Dutch and Portuguese and Spanish Catholics are competing for trading privileges, but the shogun is suspicious that the church is planning to replicate the conquest of the new world in Japan. Alcala, an elusive renegade Jesuit, is colluding with the ruthless Prince Sanjo to foment a Christian rebellion. The church wants Alcala stopped. Jan Kriek, a newly ordained priest, is sent to Japan stop him. He is aided by Maria, the daughter of the Christian lord Arima, who sends her to Lisbon with a dire warning of impending disaster. Accompanying her on the return voyage, Kriek finds himself torn between his Jesuit vows and his blossoming love for Maria. The key to a successful Christian uprising is a hidden treasure pilfered from the shogun’s gold mines. The search for the gold leads to deadly conflict between agents of shogun the conspirators who seek to depose him. When Shogun's heir is captured by Prince Sanjo, the shogun’s chief counselor sends his son Gyozen and adopted daughter Aya, both masters of the sword, to find and retrieve him. It is a decision that has unforeseen and fateful consequences. The characters that inhabit this novel are fascinating, and the absorbing story of intrigue, betrayal and forbidden love culminates in the infamous battle of Shimabara, a battle that changes the course of Japanese history for centuries.

Shimabara

Bantam]

The Past Speaks To The Future

Religion & Spirituality

ABINGDON PRESS *

This book accompanies the exhibition Unearthed at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (22 June - 29 August 2010). The volume is intended not just as an exhibition catalogue but as a meditation on excavation and archaeological endeavour. The authors invite the reader, spectator, and exhibition viewer to take up the job of archaeologist, wrestling with unexpected evidence, opinion and comparanda. The book explores previous interpretations of figurines and dogu, along with modern work by artists, photographers, and philosophers who have struggled with the paradoxes inherent in making miniature worlds and of expressing the human body in art, as well as figurines and dogu-like objects from the modern world. Once you have sifted these evidences and worked through the array of comparisons, you will be in a position whereby you can make your own decision about what dogu and figurines do, about how they worked, and indeed, about how todays archaeologists should study them. Table of Contents 1. Defining the Svara Bearing Unit in the siksavedanga literature: Unmasking a veiled debate. (Giovanni Ciotti) 2. Puranic transformations in Cola Cidambaram: The Cidambaramahatmya and the Sutasamhita. (Whitney Cox) 3. Unfuzzying the fuzzy. The distinction between rasas and bhavas in Bharata and Abhinavagupta. (Daniele Cunio) 4. A Contribution of Vedanta to the history of Mimamsa: Prakasatman’s interpretation of “verbal effectuation” (sabdabhavana). (Hugo David) 5. Married women and courtesans: Marriage and women’s room for manoeuvre as depicted in the Katha-sarit-sagara. (Iris Iran Farkhondeh) 6. Towards a new edition of the corpus of Pallava inscriptions. (Emmanuel Francis) 7. Did Mimamsa authors formulate a theory of action? (Elisa Freschi) 8. Trajectories of dance on the surface of theatrical meanings: a contribution to the theory of rasa from the fourth chapter of the Abhinavabharati. (Elisa Ganser) 9. Dravya as a Permanent Referent: The Potential Sarvastivada Influence on Patanjali’s Paspasahnika. (Alastair Gornall) 10. Rituals in the Mahasahasrapramardanasutra. (Gergely Hidas) 11. The Lingodbhava Myth in Early Saiva Sources. (Nirajan Kafle) 12. Yantras in the Buddhist Tantras – Yamaritantrasand Related Literature. (Kenichi Kuranishi) 13. Saiva Siddhanta Sraddha: Towards an evaluation of the socio-religious landscape envisaged by pre-12th century sources. (Nina Mirnig) 14. Constituents of Buddhahood as Presented in the Buddhabhumisutra and the 9th Chapter of the Mahayanasutralamkara: A Comparative Analysis. (Ayako Nakamura) 15. The gannachandas in the Indian metrical tradition. (Andrew Ollett) 16. Anatmata, Soteriology and Moral Psychology in Indian Buddhism. (Antoine Panaioti) 17. Paramarthika or aparamarthika? On the ontological status of separation according to Abhinavagupta. (Isabelle Ratie) 18. Thy Fierce Lotus-Feet: Danger and Benevolence in Mediaeval Sanskrit Poems to Mahisasuramardini-Durga. (Bihani Sarkar) 19. Minor Vajrayana texts II. A new manuscript of the Gurupancasika. (Peter-Daniel Szanto) 20. Can we infer unestablished entities? A Madhva contribution to the Indian theory of inference. (Michael Williams)

Unearthed: A Comparative Study of Jomon Dogu and Neolithic Figurines

Cochrane, Andrew

Zambelli, Jean

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Literature & Fiction

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