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Seeing into Stone: Pre-Buddhist Petroglyphs and Zangskar's Early Inhabitants - Hardcover

Rob Linrothe

 
9788192450285: Seeing into Stone: Pre-Buddhist Petroglyphs and Zangskar's Early Inhabitants
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8192450287 ISBN 13: 9788192450285
Verlag: Studio Orientalia, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Petroglyph drawings on rocks are the earliest and richest traces of human culture in Zangskar, a distinctive region of the Western Himalayas. This volume is richly illustrated with original photographs taken in Zangskar and neighboring regions documenting the locations and details of these enigmatic rock carvings. The photographs represent more than twenty years of fieldwork in Zangskar. They accompany a wide-ranging inquiry into their subject matter, distribution, relationships with those in surrounding areas, and communication strategies. Through archaeology, comparative anthropology and ethnography, and formal analysis, the study, written in accessible prose, demonstrates the connections to hunter-gatherers and later to herders who made them. These drawings on stone once provided a visual legacy in the landscape of contemporary Zangksaris with their economy mixing agriculture and herding, but are fast disappearing with the destructive expansion of road-building and neglect. DVD with 143 supplementary digital images included Full of coloured illustrations

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Verlag
Studio Orientalia
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8192450287
ISBN 13 
9788192450285
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
218
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