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portada Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
25.4x17.8x1.3 cm
Weight
0.44 kg.
ISBN13
9781350345003
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Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding

Bruno David (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Paperback

Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding - David, Bruno

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Synopsis "Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding"

The apparent timelessness of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia has long mystified European observers, conjuring images of an ancient people in harmony with their surroundings. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that the Dreaming's historical antiquity had never been explored by archaeologists prior to this study. In this seminal text in rock-art research, now reissued with a new preface, Bruno David examines the archaeological evidence for Dreaming-mediated places, rituals and symbolism. What emerges is not a static culture, but a mode of conceiving the world that emerged in its recognizable form only about 1,000 years ago. This is a world of what the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has called pre-understanding, a condition of knowledge that shapes one's experience of the world. By tracing through time the archaeological visibility of one well known mode of pre-understanding - the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia - the author argues that it is possible to scientifically explore an archaeology of pre-understanding; of body and mind, identity and Being-in-the-world.

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