Cultures of stone an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone / edited by Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly, Sol Mallía-Guest.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]
Description312 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
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Subjects
Archaeology--History.
Stone--Social aspects.

Other author/creatorCooney, Gabriel.
Other author/creatorGilhooly, Bernard.
Other author/creatorKelly, Niamh.
Other author/creatorMallía-Guest, Sol.
Contents Intro -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Constructing identities through stone -- Part one -- The relationship between stone and life in the 19th- and 20th-century quarry town of Texas, Maryland -- Adam Fracchia -- Egyptian stones for the imperial metropolis, and beyond -- Hazel Dodge -- Local marble as a potential inspiration for producing limestone exchange valuables in palau, micronesia -- Bosiljka Glumac, Scott M. Fitzpatrick -- Models of sculpture production in the early middle ages (8th-9th centuries AD) -- Michelle Beghelli
Contents Making, Building and Re-imagining in Stone -- Contemporary prehistoric stone-tool design -- Dov Ganchrow -- The oratory of power through form and materiality -- Suzanne O'Neill -- Stone fisheries and their role in shaping the cultural landscape of the Minho River Valley, Portugal -- Rui Madail, Miguel Malheiro -- Dialectics of impermanence in Josef Sudek's Prague -- Adele Tutter -- Encountering the prehistoric past in West Cornwall -- Elizabeth Pratt -- Preserving the Downpatrick High Cross -- Michael King -- Stone in Ritual Space and Practice -- Symbolism in Irish round towers -- Sarah Kerr
Contents The materiality of fire and flames on Roman cinerary urns -- Liana Brent -- Stone-grave building at the cemetery of Les Tombes at Estagel (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) -- Joan Pinar Gil -- A case study of the cult of Apollo and Zeus -- Erica Angliker -- Hermes and the stone cairn in Greek Antiquity -- Jessica Doyle -- The significance and meaning of stone artefacts and their sources to Aboriginal People in the Pilbara region of Western Australia -- Edward M. McDonald, Bryn Coldrick -- Ethnographic analogies for the ritual use of rock crystal -- Thomas Hess -- Afterword: The flexibility of stone
Summary This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone. Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such as monumentality and remembrance; its enduring character creating a link through generations to both people and place. This volume brings together a collection of seventeen papers which draw on a range of diverse disciplines and approaches; including archaeology, anthropology, classics, design and engineering, fine arts, geography, history, linguistics, philosophy, psychology and sciences.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2020520749
ISBN9789088908927 (hardcover)
ISBN9088908923 (hardcover)
ISBN9789088908910 (paperback)
ISBN9088908915 (paperback)

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