The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey: From Prehistory to the Present

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION Robert J. Wallis
	References
PART I THE MATERIALITY OF HUMAN ENGAGEMENTS WITH BIRDS OF PREY
	CHAPTER 1 RAPTORS AS COMPANIONS: DEEP-TIME FORAYS IN MULTISPECIES ARCHAEOLOGY Shumon T. Hussain
		Introduction
		Agricentrism, forager phenomenology and companion species
		Being-with raptors: a comparative perspective
		Conclusion
		References
	CHAPTER 2 GODS, KINGS AND OFFERINGS: RAPTORS IN ANCIENT EGYPT Salima Ikram
		Introduction
		Raptors in religion, iconography and text
		Animal cults and raptors
		Sacrificial raptors
		Sourcing the birds
		Ancient Egyptians and raptors in relationship
		References
	CHAPTER 3 GHOSTHAWK WORLDINGS: RAPTOR HARUSPICY DURING THE NORTH EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE Joakim Goldhahn
		The Beak People
		Meeting the birds halfway
		Goshawk alias Grey-Foot
		The archaeology of Grey-Foot
		The Hvidegård I pebbles
		The transmorph of Grey-Foot
		Discussion and concluding thoughts
		References
PART II VISUALISING HUMAN RELATIONS WITH RAPTORS
	CHAPTER 4 GOLDEN EAGLES: RAPTOR IMAGERY BIOGRAPHIES IN KAZAKHSTAN DURING THE EARLY FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE Kenneth Lymer
		Introduction
		Moving beyond the ‘animal style’
		Shilikty-type raptors
		Raptor object entanglements
		A biography of raptor objects
		Rock art entanglements
		Towards biographies of raptor imagery
		References
	CHAPTER 5 VISUAL HYBRIDITY, POLITICAL POWER AND CULTURAL CONTEST: KITAN LIAO (916-1125 CE) AND JURCHEN JIN (1115-1234 CE) TEXTILES WITH FALCONRY-RELATED IMAGERY Leslie V. Wallace
		Introduction
		Kitan and Jin textiles, dress and personal adornment
		Category 1: Fully-developed chunshui imagery
		Category 2a: Paired raptors
		Category 2b: Paired geese
		Category 3: Scenes of predation
		Category 4: Mounted falconer
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	CHAPTER 6 ‘THE FALCON-CLOAK WHISTLED’: BIRD FIBULAE, FALCONRY AND POWERFUL WOMEN IN SEVENTH-CENTURY SCANDINAVIA Kristina Jennbert1
		Introduction
		The bird fibulae
		The archaeology of falconry
		The bird brooches and falconry
		The bird fibulae and their women
		Fibulae, female falconry and Freyja
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
PART III POSTHUMANIST ONTOLOGIES OF HUMAN–RAPTOR RELATIONS
	CHAPTER 7 RELATING TO RAPTORS: THE ‘UPPER PART OF A HAWK’S HEAD AND BEAK’ IN A CHALCOLITHIC/EARLY BRONZE AGE ‘BEAKER’ GRAVE, DRIFFIELD, EAST YORKSHIRE Robert J. Wallis1
		Introduction
		Grave C38, Driffield
		The ‘upper part of a hawk’s head and beak’
		The copper-alloy knife-dagger
		The beaker
		The amber beads/buttons
		The stone wrist-guard
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	CHAPTER 8 RAPTORS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN NORTH AMERICA: AN ONTOLOGY OF ART Max Carocci
		Introduction
		Inventories and their current interpretations
		An ontology of art
		Sacred materials
		Conclusion
		References
	CHAPTER 9 BIRDS OF PREY IN ANCIENT AMAZONIA: PREDATION AND PERSPECTIVE IN CERAMIC ICONOGRAPHY Cristiana Barreto and Marcony Alves
		Introduction
		Amazonian ontologies of predation and birds of prey
		Birds of prey in ancient Amazonia
		Birds of prey in Marajoara funerary urns
		Birds of prey in Santarém ceramics
		Conclusion
		References
	CHAPTER 10 ‘NOW I AM A BIRD, AND NOW I AM A MAN’: POSTHUMANISM, RAPTORS AND THE RUS’ Neil Price1
		Introduction
		Raptors in late Iron Age reality
		Raptors in the late Iron Age mind
		Raptors and the Rus’
		Völundr’s feathers and Óðinn’s wings
		More-than-human in the Viking Age?
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
PART IV INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES OF BIRDS OF PREY
	CHAPTER 11 BIRDS OF PREY, ‘OUR MOTHERS’ AND WOMEN OF POWER: THE ‘SPIRIT BIRD OF NIGHT’ MASQUERADE IN YOR Ù B Á ART AND THOUGHT Henry John Drewal
		Introduction
		E`∙fè/Gè∙lè∙dé∙ and E∙ye∙ O`∙ro`∙/Orù
		E`∙fè · – nocturnal performances
		Spirit Bird of Night (E∙ye∙ O`∙ro`∙/Orù)
		Yorùbá beliefs about female and male differences
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	CHAPTER 12 POUĀKAI: ROCK DRAWINGS OF HAAST’S EAGLE OR NEW ZEALAND’S LEGENDARY BIRD? Gerard O’Regan, Emma Burns and Te Maire Tau1
		Introduction
		Ecological understanding
		Rock art imagery identified as eagles
		Rock art imagery ascribed as ‘birdmen’
		Traditions of Poua¯kai as a bird
		Birdman traditions
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	CHAPTER 13 ANCESTORS, MESSENGERS AND ‘GOOD COUNTRY’: BIRDS OF PREY, ROCK ART AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN THE KIMBERLEY, NORTHWEST AUSTRALIA Ana Paula Motta and Martin Porr
		Introduction
		Birds of prey representations in Australian rock art
		Case study: the northeast Kimberley
		The Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP)
		Gwion
		Wanjina
		Birds in Kimberley rock art
		Birds in the Kimberley zooarchaeological record
		Birds of prey and traditional knowledge in the Kimberley
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
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