Imaging adornos : classification and iconography of Saladoid adornos from St. Vincent, West Indies / Iosif Moravetz.

Author
Moravetz, Iosif [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2005.
Description
v, 98 pages, 27 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    BAR international series ; 1445. [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-89).
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction
    • The world of images
    • Images and archaeology
    • The island of St. Vincent
    • The Saldoid culture and its people: chronology and distribution
    • The Saladoid in the Windwards Islands: Saladoid subsistence, Saladoid settlement patterns; Saladoid ceremonialism / 2. Methodology
    • Iconography: level one: pre-iconographic description, level two: iconographic analysis, level three: iconography
    • Classification and archaeology
    • Iconography and classification / 3. The archaeology database
    • Recording Adornos
    • Adornos and their contents / Formal analysis and technology
    • Formal attributes
    • technology / 4. Classification and description
    • Type I: Spherical or b-shaped
    • Type II: Cylindrical Adornos
    • Type III: Conical heads
    • Type IV: Ovoid heads
    • Type V: Tabular heads / 5. Image types and their primary meaning
    • formal taypes versus images types
    • defining images types
    • primary meanings
    • analysis and identification
    • gender and age
    • expression and movement / 6. Iconography and iconology: the search for intrinsic meaning
    • conventional meaning
    • iconology of the turtle images: dwellings and burials
    • food, shelter, life and death: turtle symbolism and the turtle's acolytes / 7. Conclusion: the comparative perspective
    • the chronological perspective
    • the interpretive perspective
    • conclusion.
    ISBN
    • 1841718815 ((pbk.))
    • 9781841718811 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2006361593
    OCLC
    63136012
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