دانلود کتاب A Consideration of Gender Roles and Relations in the Aegean Bronze Age Interpreted from Gestures and Proxemics in Art

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Front Cover
Of Related Interest
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abstract
1: Introduction
Outline of Investigation
The Aegean Context
Identifying Images in the Text
2: Relevant Previous Research
Gesture in the Aegean
Figurines
Gestures Associated with Spatial Divisions
Gestures of Ecstasy?
Gestures of Power?
Gestured Images Influencing Activity?
Glyptics
Frescoes
Gender in the Aegean
Gender Identification
Gender definitions?
Criteria for Gender Distinctions?
Binary Divisions of Gender?
The ‘Mother Goddess’ Influence
Assignment of ‘Traditional’ Activitiesto Males and Females
Gender Segregation?
Plant-Gathering as Status-Imbued?
The Link Between Females and Child-Care
Textile Production
The ‘Domestic’ Context
Male-Focused Perspective
Age and Gender
Some Concluding Observations
3: A Theoretical Framework for Analysis
The Relationship Between Image, Subject and Viewer
Image as Sign
The Importance of the Human Image
The Audience
Was there a Different Prehistoric Understanding of Perception?
Which Gender did the Viewing? Can We Knowand does it Matter?
Image as Metaphor
Gesture, Art and Iconography
What Gesture and Proxemics Might Mean Outsidethe Image
The Ethological Model
The Sociological Model
The Linguistic Model
The Importance of Gestural Behaviour and Proxemics as Status Indicators in Orientation, Ceremony and Ritual, and Spatial Behaviour
Greetings and Farewells
Ceremony and Ritual
Spatial Behaviour
4: A Methodology and the Material Examined
How Gender will be Understood and Interpreted
A Grounded Theory Approach
The Structural-Iconographic Framework for Analysis
Technical, Crafting, Stylistic, and Material Considerations
The Material Analysed
The Frescoes
The Glyptics
Three-Dimensional Miscellaneous Artefacts
Supplementary Material Including Figurines
Past And Present Problems with the Evidence
General
Misleading Reconstructions of the Material
Misleading Drawings
Gender Attributes Identified
The Issue of Skin Colour
5: Are There Gender-Distinct Activities?
Objects Held as Indicative of Perceived Social Roles
Objects and Inter-Personal Relationships
6: The Ways Bodies Occupy Their Surrounding Space
Contained or Expanding Body Shapes Within the Picture Frame: Are There Gender Differences?
‘Uncontrolled’ Postures: Are These Gender Specific?
Conclusion
7: In What Ways Do Figures Orientate Towards Each Other?
Preliminary Considerations
Some Basic Assumptions
Female-to-Female Orientation
Mixed Gender Orientation
Females More Dominant
Neither Gender Dominant
Mutual Orientation or Males Dominating?
Some Concluding Observations about Orientation
8: Can the Seating of Figures Reveal Anything About Gender Status?
The Approach
The Artefacts Analysed
Where and When These Seated Figures were Viewed
Gender of Figures Identified
Kinds of Seating Used
Special Chairs
Other People in Relation to the Seated Figure
Conclusion
9: What Might an Examination of Processions Reveal?
The Nature of processions
Elements Identifiable in Processions
Gender Distinctions
Female-only Processions
Mixed Gender Processions
Some Concluding Observations
10: Conclusion
References