1st Edition
Place, Memory, and Healing An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments
By Ömür Harmanşah
Copyright 2015
220 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during... Read more
Preface 1. Archaeology of Place 2. Plato’s Spring, Tudhaliya’s Pool: Water, Place and Storytelling in Hittite Landscapes 3. The Cultural Life of Caves 4. Rock Reliefs Are Never Finished 5. Places of healing and miracles: the afterlife of Anatolian rock monuments 6. Conclusions: Stories of Place Bibliography
Biography
Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"For scholars interested in recent work by members of the Theoretical Archaeological Group, this book may be a welcome addition. Harmanşah's emphasis on the "place" in the study of Late Bronze Age rock-cut reliefs from the Hittite world can be thought provoking...Summing Up: Recommended." - D. A. Slane, University of Maryland University College, CHOICE Review
