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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Dedication 4 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Contents 7 List of Plates 9 List of Figures 10 List of Tables 15 Lines of Flight: A Foreword 17 Some Notes to the Reader 19 Prologue 25 Part I Lift-Off 31 One Strange Birds 33 Introduction 33 The Ontological Turn 48 Four Modes of Identification 52 From the Art of Worldings to the Worldings of Art 61 Meeting the Universe of Birds Halfway 67 Strange Birds? 69 Assembling Bronze Age Birds: Outlining the Book 76 Two Bird Divinations in the Ancient World 83 The Earliest Sources 83 Ancient Greece 84 The Romans 89 Bird Watchers in North Europe? 92 Bird Watchers in the Bronze Age? 95 Three The Hvidegård Burial Revisited 101 Introduction 101 The Excavation 102 The Burial 103 The Finds 105 The Cloak 107 The Bones 111 ''In Small Things Remembered'' 116 The Gizzard Stones 119 Conclusions 124 Part II Birdscapes 125 Four Bronze Birds 127 Introduction 127 Bird Iconography 132 Bronze Lurs 135 Birds and Bronze Age Religion 136 Birds in the Eye of the Beholder 139 The Fluidity of Razor Birds 143 The Hanging Bowls 151 The Beak People 158 The ''Owl-Goddesses'' 163 Deductions 164 Five Birds for the Living 165 Introduction 165 The Elu

Author

Joakim Goldhahn

Published

2019

Language

EN