Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper

Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia (eBook, PDF)

Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108854481
• Artikelnr.: 70911328

Autorenporträt

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper is Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinksi II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture in the Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University, Texas. She is co-editor of The Tiny and the Fragmented: Miniature, Broken, and Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World (2018), she served as lead curator for the exhibition 'Life in Miniature: Identity and Display at Ancient Seleucia-on-the-Tigris' at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A question of intimacy: miniaturization and figurines
2. Fascination with the tiny: interacting with figurines
3. Three's a crowd: spectatorship of figurines
4. Images of the self: identifying with figurines
5. The global and the local: making cultural and social choices with figurines
6. Conclusion: life in miniature
Bibliography
Index.