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Ancestral Images

Name: Ancestral Images
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801435492
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The Iconography of Human Origins

Szerző: Stephanie Moser

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Cornell University Press

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Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared anc...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Stephanie Moser

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

224

EAN

9780801435492

ISBN

0801435498

Enbook ID

04706139

Kiadó

Cornell University Press

Súly

734

Méretek

179 x 250 x 18

Teljes leírás

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is illustrated with more than eighty engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions.In surveying the iconography of prehistory, Moser explores visions of human creation that were produced during the Renaissance. She looks closely at the first scientific reconstructions of the nineteenth century, which dramatized and made comprehensible the Darwinian theory of human descent from apes. She considers, as well, the impact of reconstructions on popular literature in Europe and North America, showing that early visualizations of prehistory retained a firm hold on the imagination -- a hold that archaeologists and anthropologists have found difficult to shake.