Monumental archaeology in the Mongolian Altai : intention, memory, myth / by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer.
"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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2023]
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| Series: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Handbook of Uralic studies ;
v. 30. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004541306 9789004541306 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2023). |