Ten papers draw on case studies in the Mediterranean and the Americas examining both how a culture studies its own past and how external people study a ‘foreign’ culture. Differing antiquarian traditions emerge that when merged produce new perceptions of the past.
The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual - the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualisations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence.
People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices.
Mediterranean Studies in Honor of R. Ross Holloway
Edited by Derek Counts and Anthony Tuck
Full Price: $70.00
Discount Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9781842173794
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2009-11-23
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups' . This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R.
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