|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South
Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives
of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models
of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural
models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an
archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what
kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be
derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in
the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not
widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific
method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of
belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume
brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate
this approach to archaeological interpretation, including
contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan
Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and
substantive research that improves our understanding of the human
past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary
audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and
methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and
theory courses and postgraduate students.
In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation,
David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments
in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale
of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and
Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages
animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial
importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White,
Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in
which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He
challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney
aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The
Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo,
necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness
of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the
films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they
were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that
underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects
produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which
images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more
complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an
important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art
plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to
contemporary experience.
In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation,
David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments
in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale
of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E. As Whitley has shown, and
Disney's newest films continue to demonstrate, the messages
animated films convey about the natural world are of crucial
importance to their child viewers. Beginning with Snow White,
Whitley examines a wide range of Disney's feature animations, in
which images of wild nature are central to the narrative. He
challenges the notion that the sentimentality of the Disney
aesthetic, an oft-criticized aspect of such films as Bambi, The
Jungle Book, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Finding Nemo,
necessarily prevents audiences from developing a critical awareness
of contested environmental issues. On the contrary, even as the
films communicate the central ideologies of the times in which they
were produced, they also express the ambiguities and tensions that
underlie these dominant values. In distinguishing among the effects
produced by each film and revealing the diverse ways in which
images of nature are mediated, Whitley urges us towards a more
complex interpretation of the classic Disney canon and makes an
important contribution to our understanding of the role popular art
plays in shaping the emotions and ideas that are central to
contemporary experience.
First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of
studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this
topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding
Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher
David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed
to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of
artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a
comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists
and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The
second edition of this classic work has additional material on
mapping sites, ethnographic analogy, neuropsychological models, and
Native American consultation.
First published in 2005, this brief introduction to methods of
studying rock art has become the standard text for courses on this
topic. It was also selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding
Academic Book in 2005. Internationally-known rock art researcher
David Whitley takes the reader through the various processes needed
to document, interpret, and preserve this fragile category of
artifact. Using examples from around the globe, he offers a
comprehensive guide to rock art studies of value to archaeologists
and art historians, their students, and rock art aficionados. The
second edition of this classic work has additional material on
mapping sites, ethnographic analogy, neuropsychological models, and
Native American consultation.
Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South
Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives
of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models
of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural
models to understand symbolism and belief. How does an
archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what
kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be
derived? One interpretive approach, developed in southern Africa in
the 1980s, has been particularly successful even if still not
widely known globally. With an expressed commitment to scientific
method, it has resulted in deeper, well-tested understandings of
belief, ritual, settlement patterns and social systems. This volume
brings together a series of papers that demonstrate and illustrate
this approach to archaeological interpretation, including
contributions from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan
Africa, in the process highlighting innovative methodological and
substantive research that improves our understanding of the human
past. Professional archaeological researchers would be the primary
audience of this book. Because of its theoretical and
methodological emphasis, it will also be relevant to method and
theory courses and postgraduate students.
A personal account of a unique life experience. From football star
and homecoming king to living an authentic life as a woman, Gina
Duncan takes you on a very personal journey of self discovery. A
journey filled with pain, with humor, with unique situations and in
the end, with the ultimate joy of living a true life.
Free Spacer, a light-hearted romp, centers on 'spacer' Aaron
Maxwell as he explores his end of the galaxy with his ship the
Achilles Bane and the less than accommodating AI, Genie. Along the
way he meets the blue feathered Zemmings, a polite epicurean
species for whom food means much more than mere sustenance but
whose tastes definitely leave something to be desired. He renews
his friendship with an old Jarmooth platoon mate only to find
himself unexpectedly an accomplice to bride stealing and ship
theft. He also discovers the small cyclopean race of Hellions whose
tragic plight inspires the good-hearted spacer to make every effort
to free them. Then there are the brutal and acquisitive, if oh so
pious Gar, who seem to always turn up to complicate Aaron's life.
But ultimately while attempting to rescue the marooned survivors of
a Zeno-archaeological expedition, he finds that there may be things
in the universe more dangerous to his way of life than the Gar
In the ancient city of Agora, two orphans' fates have suddenly
changed.
He has escaped the plague. She has been released from life as a
servant.
But both are still fighting to survive.
And together, they will play a role in fulfilling the prophecy of
the mysterious Midnight Charter.
If they live . . .
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R54
R45
Discovery Miles 450
|