Chris Gosden profundiza en la profunda conexión humana con el mundo material, explorando la historia a largo plazo de la creatividad, la inteligencia y las emociones. Su trabajo examina la estética y la arqueología de la colonización, desde tiempos recientes hasta el establecimiento del Imperio Romano. Escudriña los períodos de la prehistoria tardía en Europa, el arte celta y diversos aspectos de la cultura material. Gosden también investiga cuestiones de identidad, particularmente la inglesidad, y la historia de los museos y las disciplinas de la arqueología y la antropología.
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