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The Materiality of Stone - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology (Hardcover)
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The Materiality of Stone - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology (Hardcover)
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With Wayne Bennett From the silky wax qualities of the surfaces of
some quartz menhirs to the wood-grain textures of others, to the
golden honeycombed limestones of Malta, to the icy frozen waves of
the Cambrian sandstone of south-east Sweden, this book investigates
the sensuous material qualities of stone. Tactile sensations,
sonorous qualities, colour, and visual impressions are all shown to
play a vital part in our understanding of the power and
significance of prehistoric monuments in relation to their
landscapes. In The Materiality of Stone, Christopher Tilley
presents a radically new way of analyzing the significance of both
'cultural' and 'natural' stone in prehistoric European landscapes.
Tilley's groundbreaking approach is to interpret human experience
in a multidimensional and sensuous human way, rather than through
an abstract analytical gaze. The studies range widely from the
menhirs of prehistoric Brittany to Maltese Neolithic temples to
Bronze Age rock carvings and cairns in southern Sweden. Tilley
leaves no stone unturned as he also considers how the internal
spaces and landscape settings are interpreted in relation to
artifacts, substances, and related places that were deeply
meaningful to the people who inhabited them and remain no less
evocative today. In its innovative approach to understanding human
experience through the tangible rocks and stone of our past, The
Materiality of Stone is both a major theoretical and substantive
contribution to the field of material culture studies and the study
of European prehistory.
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