Animals and Animal Symbols in World Culture

Animals and Animal Symbols in World Culture
Author: Dean Miller
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1627125760

A comprehensive guide to the history of human interaction with the creatures of the earth, air, and water. This book provides historical perspective on mankind's complicated relationship with all creatures, from tiny insects to larger beasts. From the alligator to the wryneck, key animals from every continent are profiled, with articles focusing on how different cultures viewed the creatures with which they shared land, and the ones they considered omens of gods and devils. In addition to the numerous articles on specific animals, there are also entries on the role of animals in Christian art, and how shamans took the form and power of animals in key ceremonies. The work is highly illustrated, and subjects of major interest are provided with individual bibliographies of further reading on the subject at the end of each article.

Animals and Animal Symbols in World Culture

Animals and Animal Symbols in World Culture
Author: Dean Miller
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1627125752

A comprehensive guide to the history of human interaction with the creatures of the earth, air, and water. This book provides historical perspective on mankind's complicated relationship with all creatures, from tiny insects to larger beasts. From the alligator to the wryneck, key animals from every continent are profiled, with articles focusing on how different cultures viewed the creatures with which they shared land, and the ones they considered omens of gods and devils. In addition to the numerous articles on specific animals, there are also entries on the role of animals in Christian art, and how shamans took the form and power of animals in key ceremonies. The work is highly illustrated, and subjects of major interest are provided with individual bibliographies of further reading on the subject at the end of each article.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art
Author: Hope B. Werness
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826419132

Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.

Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art

Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art
Author: Simona Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004171010

The relationship between medieval animal symbolism and the iconography of animals in the Renaissance has scarcely been studied. Filling a gap in this significant field of Renaissance culture, in general, and its art, in particular, this book demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval animal interpretations and symbolism, disguised under the veil of genre, religious or mythological narrative and scientific naturalism. An extensive introduction, dealing with relevant medieval and early Renaissance sources, is followed by a series of case studies that illustrate ways in which Renaissance artists revived conventional animal imagery in unprecedented contexts, investing them with new meanings, on a social, political, ethical, religious or psychological level, often by applying exegetical methodology in creating multiple semantic and iconographic levels.Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 2

Spirit Animals

Spirit Animals
Author: Wayne Arthurson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781926696263

Native peoples of North America have long believed in the power of spirit animals or totems to teach, to heal, and to inspire. This fully-illustrated book introduces the legends and stories of spirit animals such as bear, wolf, buffalo, and coyote from various North American tribes. For all ages.

The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology

The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology
Author: Pam J. Crabtree
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1949057003

The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidenceincluding archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric datain the reconstruction of animal symbolism.

The Inheritance of Animal Symbols in Modern Literature and World Culture

The Inheritance of Animal Symbols in Modern Literature and World Culture
Author: Bruce Ross
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1988
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This book argues that the seemingly eclipsed traditional use of animal symbols as a functioning grammar in world art, literature and culture has been effectively adopted by exponents of modern literature and that cultures such as India and China apprehend reality through such symbols. The book examines the animal symbols of the fable, the bestiary, the beast satire and myth and ritual as revivified in the work of Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and Franz Kafka and as evoked in Hinduism and traditional Chinese culture.

Gothic Animals

Gothic Animals
Author: Ruth Heholt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3030345408

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human animals, eco-criticism, literary and cultural theory, this book takes the Gothic genre into new territory. After the dissemination of Darwin’s theories of evolution, nineteenth-century fiction quickly picked up on the idea of the ‘animal within’. Here, the fear explored was of an unruly, defiant, degenerate and entirely amoral animality lying (mostly) dormant within all of us. However, non-humans and humans have other sorts of encounters, too, and even before Darwin, humans have often had an uneasy relationship with animals, which, as Donna Haraway puts it, have a way of ‘looking back’ at us. In this book, the focus is not on the ‘animal within’ but rather on the animal ‘with-out’: other and entirely incomprehensible.

A Jewish Bestiary

A Jewish Bestiary
Author: Mark Podwal
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 027109222X

“Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee.” —Job 12:7 In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second only to that of the Bible. In addition to being a kind of encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, the bestiary also served as a book of moral and religious instruction, teaching human virtues through a portrayal of an animal’s true or imagined behavior. In A Jewish Bestiary, Mark Podwal revisits animals, both real and mythical, that have captured the Jewish imagination through the centuries. Originally published in 1984 and called “broad in learning and deep in subtle humor” by the New York Times, this updated edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore. The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic sources. Throughout, Podwal combines traditional Jewish themes with his own distinctive style. The resulting juxtaposition of art with history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the twenty-first century. From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a special force on the Jewish fancy.