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Imaging adornos : classification and iconography of Saladoid adornos from St. Vincent, West Indies / Iosif Moravetz.
Author
Moravetz, Iosif
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2005.
Description
v, 98 pages, 27 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
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F1619.2.S25 M67 2005
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Subject(s)
Saladoid culture
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Antiquities
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Indian pottery
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Classification
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Indian sculpture
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Classification
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Indian art
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Antiquities
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Indigenous Studies
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Series
BAR international series ; 1445.
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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.
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ISBN
1841718815 ((pbk.))
9781841718811 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2006361593
OCLC
63136012
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