Monumental Archaeology in the Mongolian Altai

Intention, Memory, Myth
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53521-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies

The stone monuments of Mongolia’s Altai Mountains trace the web of ancient cultures across that remote land. This study breaks new ground by seeking their cultural significance from within their physical locations and viewsheds.

It is the first study to join the mute stone monuments to the vivid petroglyphic rock art of that region. In that and in the examination of a monument’s individualizing details, I seek to recover the impulse of original intention, the way in which monument and location fix cultural memory, and the way in which memory finally gives way to the cultural development of myth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobson-Tepfer, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Prähistorische Epoche

Über Autor(innen)

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, Ph.D. (1970), University of Chicago, is Kerns Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon. She has published over ten books on the ancient pre-nomadic world of Siberia and Mongolia, including her first, The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia (Brill, 1993).