Cultural Life at the Abyss - B. L. Molyneaux

Cultural Life at the Abyss

The Grounding of Ideology in Nature

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Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-48408-5 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Ideology dominates social research, encouraged by rejections of nature and the past, and often ignores the direct experience of actual people. This archaeological study takes a different approach, grounding concepts of culture, landscape and art in ecological relations that embrace all of life.

An ecological approach considers that life exists in the interactions of people with the environment surrounding them. This theoretical grounding therefore supports research at a local scale and validates the analysis of individual effort. The case studies explore individual perception, action and expression in a startlingly diverse set of objects and features from the past: natural and constructed monuments, ancient and recent rock paintings, petroglyphs, fresco paintings and impressionist landscape art. While traditional cultural approaches render ordinary people as proxies, these individuals, as members of families and communities, do the actual work of society, using their senses, bodies and minds. The analysis here therefore turns away from traditional speculations about the meanings of cultural things to look for evidence of the personal choices of travelers, inhabitants, pilgrims and artists as they acted, and attempt to gain insights from these decisions about the past as lived.

The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in culture and society who may be restless in theatres of discourse dominated by self-affirming narratives, who wish to consider the fields of possibility in an environmental perspective that integrates culture with nature and humans with other beings in a singular, physical world.

B. L. Molyneaux is an archaeologist specializing in cross-cultural art, ideology and environment. He has conducted fieldwork in Canada, the United States and the UK. His research ranges from ground survey and recording to theories of perception and environmental interaction in the creation and use of images and the nature of ideology. He received his PhD in archaeology at the University of Southampton.

1. Charting the territory; 2. Mere nature; 3. The lure of monuments; 4. The grounds of art; 5. How rocks speak; 6. In search of a situation; 7. Legend of the true cross; 8. Landscape, energy, ecology; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 19 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-48408-3 / 1138484083
ISBN-13 978-1-138-48408-5 / 9781138484085
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