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020			_a9781350345003
028			_a: : Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00072 _d: 12/12/2023
082			_a306.0973 DAV
100			_aDavid, Bruno.
245			_aLandscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming _b: An Archaeology of Preunderstanding. _c/Bruno David.
260			_a,New York _b: Bloomsbury _c, 2023.
300			_axiii,235p. _c: 28cm.
365			_b2305
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aArchaeology
650			_aAnthropological Archaeology
650			_aLandscapes, Rock-Art
700			_aBruno David.
942			_cBOOK
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