Chris Gosden esplora la profonda connessione umana con il mondo materiale, indagando la storia a lungo termine della creatività, dell'intelligenza e delle emozioni. Il suo lavoro esamina l'estetica e l'archeologia della colonizzazione, dai tempi recenti alla fondazione dell'Impero Romano. Approfondisce i periodi della preistoria recente in Europa, l'arte celtica e vari aspetti della cultura materiale. Gosden indaga anche questioni di identità, in particolare l'inglesità, e la storia dei musei e delle discipline dell'archeologia e dell'antropologia.
Focusing on the theories and methods of anthropology and archaeology, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to these interconnected disciplines. It serves as a crucial resource for understanding the foundational concepts and approaches that shape the study of human cultures and historical artifacts.
A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today. Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe, and that the universe responds to us - has developed a bad reputation. But it is still with us, as it has been for millennia, as Professor Chris Gosden shows in this extraordinarily bold and unprecedented history. As Gosden argues, magic preceded religion and science. It has been with us from the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish magic, to the shamanistic traditions of Eurasia, indigenous America and Africa, the alchemy of the Renaissance, colonial dismissals of magic as backwards, and quantum physics today - where magic and science converge. Drawing on his decades of research around the world, and with incredible breadth and authority, this timely history of human thought across thousands of years rightly shows the role that magic has played in shaping civilization
Many of the familiar aspects of modern life are no more than a century or two old, yet our deep social structures and skills were in large measure developed by small bands of our prehistoric ancestors many millennia ago. The reader is invited to think seriously about who we are by considering who we have been. schovat popis