Technologies of Enchantment? by Duncan Garrow, Chris Gosden - 9780199548064

Technologies of Enchantment?Exploring Celtic Art: 400 BC to AD 100\nAuthor(s): Duncan Garrow, Chris Gosden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199548064, 978-0199548064\nSynopsis\nWhile Celtic art includes some of the most famous archaeological artefacts in the British Isles, such as the Battersea shield or the gold torcs from Snettisham, it has often been considered from an art historical point of view. Technologies of Enchantment? Exploring Celtic Art attempts to connect Celtic art to its archaeological context, looking at how it was made, used, and deposited. Based on the first comprehensive database of Celtic art, it brings together current theories concerning the links between people and artefacts found in many areas of the social sciences. The authors argue that Celtic art was deliberately complex and ambiguous so that it could be used to negotiate social position and relations in an inherently un.