: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding David, Bruno. creator Bruno David. text New York : Bloomsbury , 2023 monographic eng

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xiii,235p. : 28cm. The apparent timelessness of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia has long mystified European observers, conjuring images of an ancient people in harmony with their surroundings. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that the Dreaming's historical antiquity had never been explored by archaeologists prior to this study. In this seminal text in rock-art research, now reissued with a new preface, Bruno David examines the archaeological evidence for Dreaming-mediated places, rituals and symbolism. What emerges is not a static culture, but a mode of conceiving the world that emerged in its recognizable form only about 1,000 years ago. This is a world of what the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has called pre-understanding, a condition of knowledge that shapes one's experience of the world. By tracing through time the archaeological visibility of one well known mode of pre-understanding - the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia - the author argues that it is possible to scientifically explore an archaeology of pre-understanding; of body and mind, identity and Being-in-the-world. /Bruno David. Archaeology Anthropological Archaeology Landscapes, Rock-Art 306.0973 DAV 9781350345003 : : Brijwasi Book Distributors : : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi 240106 20240106154231.0