The hunter, the stag, and the mother of animals: image, monument, and landscape in ancient North Asia Esther Jacobson-Tepfer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015Description: xxxiii, 413 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190202361Subject(s): Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Asia | Religion, Prehistoric -- Asia | Deer -- Symbolic aspects -- Asia -- History -- To 1500 | Goddesses, Asian -- History -- To 1500 | Liminality -- Asia -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500 | Social change -- Asia -- History -- To 1500 | Social archaeology -- Asia | Landscape archaeology -- Asia | Asia -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 950.1 LOC classification: GN851 | .J33 2015| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The transformation of image, object and belief in prehistoric North Asia -- The appearance of the animal mother -- The persistence of liminal beings -- The mother of animals -- Intimations of death and transformation -- The end of naturalism in nomadic art -- The pivot between life and death -- Traces of ancient beliefs -- The archaeology of belief.
"Jacobson-Tepfer explores the changing traditions of belief in pre-Bronze and Bronze Age North Asia, centering her argument on a female deity and her evolution until the early Iron Age"--Provided by publisher.
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