Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Swedish Rock Art Series
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: thinking images through (Joakim Goldhahn)
• PRELUDE
• Theorising the powers of imagery
• The structure of the book
• PART I: ARIAS: MOTIFS AND INTERPRETATIONS
• Boats
• The development of a ‘maritime’ perspective
• Boats and cosmological structures
• Boats and exchange
• Landscape, value and identity
• Wealth and value in Bohuslän: the alternative affluence of carvings
• Boats and death rituals: art for the living, or for the dead?
• Boat motifs on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Humans
• Human figures on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Feet and shoe-soles
• Feet and shoe-soles on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Animals
• Animals on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Birds
• Birds on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Carts/wheeled vehicles
• Carts on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• Circles/discs, circle crosses and ‘sun’ wheels
• ‘Sun stands’
• Other motifs
• Cupmarks
• Cupmarks on the rocks at Brastads-Backa
• PART II: CABALETTA: LANDSCAPE SETTING AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: THE RHYTHMIC VISUAL ARTS OF NARRATIVE
• The carvings and the surrounding landscape at Brastads-Backa
• Overall distribution of the carvings
• Cairns, stone settings and burial mounds
• Processions, performances, ritual
• Narrative
• What time are these images?
• Narrative structures on the rocks
• Rhythmanalysis
• A semiotics of embodiment
• An animate world
• PART III: FINALE: PERAMBULATING THE ROCKS
• Brastads-Backa: a brief history of research
• The southern series of rocks
• Rock 26:1
• Rock 26:3
• Rock 26:2
• Rock 26:6
• Rock 26:4
• Rock 587
• Rock 18
• Rock 18:2
• Rock 18.1
• Rocks 18:3 and 18:4
• Rocks 22:1 and 22:2
• Rock 21:1
• Rock 16:1
• Rock 15:1
• Rock 14:1
• Rock 19:1
• The northern series of rocks
• Rock 4:1
• Rock 2:1
• Rock 9:1
• Rock 1:1
• Rock 1:2
• Rock 5:1
• Rocks 589 and 596
• Rock 48:1
• Rock 6:1
• Rock 586
• The northern series summarised
• CONCLUSIONS
• The image sequence
• The southern series of rocks
• The northern series of rocks
• Dominant images
• Southern series
• Northern series
• Storyline 1: shadow play and becoming an adult in the society of the crane
• Shadow people
• Storyline 2: between walking feet and moving carts: life, death and the ancestral dead
• The way feet walk
• Carts and directionality
• Storyline 3: animism and the spiritual connection between persons, animals and things in everyday life
• Storyline 4: materially choreographing embodied experience of presentational forms
• POSTLUDE
• Reflections
• References