Abstract:
The concept of ‘otherness’ or ‘othering’ has been a prominent topic in sociology and anthropology in the last decades. It has also recently been examined in historical disciplines, particularly with regard to pre-modern times, and taken from philological, historical, and visual studies perspectives. In the past, however, most of these studies on ‘otherness’ and similar phenomena, such as (social) inequality, dependency, and inclusion/exclusion, focused on specific regions, cultures, and periods. In contrast, the methodological approach used in this volume, is based on transcultural and diachronic comparisons. This allows us to look at a broad range of images of ‘others’ stemming from different pre-modern societies (prior to 1800 CE) around the globe and to com-pare the role of ‘otherness’ and the use of ‘othering’ as a pictorial strategy in various historical contexts. The volume includes case studies from Bronze and Iron Age Near East and Egypt, Late Bronze Age and Archaic-Classical Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Europe as well as pre-modern South Asia.
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Volume 31 explores 'Otherness' in pre-modern visual art
The Iconography of 'Otherness' in Pre-Modern Visual Art - A Cross-Cultural Approach is edited by BCDSS Investigator Martin Bentz (University of Bonn) and former BCDSS PhD Researcher Patrick Zeidler (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany). It also features contributions by BCDSS Principal Investigators Birgit Münch and Julia Hegewald.
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