"Minoan renderings of animals are some of the most vibrant art of the ancient Mediterranean. Working with current developments in material-culture studies, animal studies, and ancient art, Anderson examines these objects not as mere representations but as uniquely real embodiments of animals that made powerful contributions to sociocultural life"--
"Minoan renderings of animals are some of the most vibrant art of the ancient Mediterranean. Working with current developments in material-culture studies, animal studies, and ancient art, Anderson examines these objects not as mere representations but as uniquely real embodiments of animals that made powerful contributions to sociocultural life"--
Emily S. K. Anderson teaches in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, where her work focuses on the visual and material cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age and the ongoing lives of ancient forms and materials. She is the author of Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Life among the animalian in bronze age Crete and the Southern Aegean; 2. Craftiness and productivity in bodily things: the changing contexts of Cretan zoomorphic vessels; 3. Stone poets: between lion and person in glyptic and oral culture of bronze age Crete and the Aegean; 4. Likeness and integration among extraordinary creatures: rethinking Minoan 'composite' beasts; 5. Singular, seriated, similar: helmets, shields and ikria as intuitive animalian things; 6. Moving toward life: painted walls and novel animalian presences in Aegean spaces; Concluding thoughts: restless bodies in the Minoan world.
1. Life among the animalian in bronze age Crete and the Southern Aegean; 2. Craftiness and productivity in bodily things: the changing contexts of Cretan zoomorphic vessels; 3. Stone poets: between lion and person in glyptic and oral culture of bronze age Crete and the Aegean; 4. Likeness and integration among extraordinary creatures: rethinking Minoan 'composite' beasts; 5. Singular, seriated, similar: helmets, shields and ikria as intuitive animalian things; 6. Moving toward life: painted walls and novel animalian presences in Aegean spaces; Concluding thoughts: restless bodies in the Minoan world.
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