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Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming

By David Bruno

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Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
254
Release Date:
2023-02-23
Publication Date:
2023-02-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350345008
ISBN13:
9781350345003
Weight:
485 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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