Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 390 g
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 390 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-22245-8
Verlag: University of California Press
Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern in Massiolite ceramic are more than archival curiosities for Sobin. Instead they invite inquiry and speculation on existence itself: Artifacts are read as realia, and history as an uninterrupted sequence of object lessons.
As much travel writing as meditative discourse, Luminous Debris is enhanced by a prose that tracks, questions, and reflects on the materials invoked. Sobin engages the reader with precise descriptions of those very materials and the messages to be gleaned from their examination, be they existential, ethical, or political.
An American expatriate living in Provence for the past thirty-five years, Gustaf Sobin shares his enthusiasm for his adopted landscape and for a vertical interpretation of its strata. In Luminous Debris he creates meaning out of matter and celebrates instances of reality, past and present.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: SILEX
Terra Amata
Reading Prehistory: The Search for Antecedents
The First Hunters and the Last
Neolithicizing Provence: Cardia!, a Culture That Came from the Sea
Archeological Rhetoric
Moon Goddess: Speculations on a Pictograph
The Skull with the Seashell Ear
West-Southwest
A Twilight Industry
Stelae: The Emergence of Human Figuration
PART II: BRONZE AND, SOON AFTER, IRON
On a Bronze Age Earring
Echoes in Clay: Interpreting Pictographs in Late Bronze Age Ceramics
Baby Burials: Domestic Inhumation in the Iron Age
Terremare
On the Longevity of Toponyms
The Cult of Skulls: From Severance to Sculpture
PART Ill: UNDER THE RAISED TRELLISES
Negative Architecture
Undulant-Oblique: A Study of Wave Patterns on Ionico-Massalian Pottery
Tracking Hannibal
What the Thunder Said
Aeria the Evanescent
Votive Mirrors: A Reflection
Dream Incubation: The Temple at Riez
Fervor and Residue: Chastelard-Lardiers
Le Pont Flavien: An Instance of Passage
PART IV: AQUAEDUCTUS
Aquaeductus
Notes
Index