TY - CHAP
T1 - Rock Art and Seascapes
AU - McNiven, Ian
AU - Brady, Liam
PY - 2012/7/23
Y1 - 2012/7/23
N2 - Maritime peoples cosmologically construct seascapes rich in symbolic meaning. Unlike landscapes, seascapes present unique challenges in terms of inscribing meaning and marking places across this fluid realm. A further challenge is the maintenance and expression of a maritime identity whilst on land and not engaging directly with the sea. Strategies to overcome both challenges include symbolic referencing of the sea on the land and the production of marine-themed rock art. Such referencing extends seascapes " inland " and sets a challenge for archaeologists to better understand the place of terrestrial contexts in the construction and maintenance of seascapes and the expression of a maritime identity.
AB - Maritime peoples cosmologically construct seascapes rich in symbolic meaning. Unlike landscapes, seascapes present unique challenges in terms of inscribing meaning and marking places across this fluid realm. A further challenge is the maintenance and expression of a maritime identity whilst on land and not engaging directly with the sea. Strategies to overcome both challenges include symbolic referencing of the sea on the land and the production of marine-themed rock art. Such referencing extends seascapes " inland " and sets a challenge for archaeologists to better understand the place of terrestrial contexts in the construction and maintenance of seascapes and the expression of a maritime identity.
KW - Aneityumese rock art sites and fishing magic
KW - Inscribed landscapes and seascapes, the phenomenological approach
KW - Key elements, for an archaeology of rock art and seascapes
KW - Maritime identity and marine motif rock art, being far from direct
KW - Maritime peoples and seascape construction, rock art and maritime worlds
KW - Maritime peoples, reconciling terrestrial spaces with maritime identity
KW - Rock art and agency, poststructuralist understandings of material culture
KW - Rock art and seascapes, and maritime peoples rich in symbolic meanings
KW - Rock art, options limited for practical reasons to intertidal zone on land
KW - Seascape rock art, not being the same as coastal rock art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887150253&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch5
DO - 10.1002/9781118253892.ch5
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781444334241
T3 - Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
SP - 69
EP - 89
BT - A Companion to Rock Art
A2 - McDonald, Jo
A2 - Veth, Peter
PB - Blackwell Publishing
CY - Oxford
ER -
