Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108738460 |
| ISBN10: | 110873846X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 332 pages |
| Size: | 253x178x18 mm |
| Weight: | 637 g |
| Language: | English |
| 577 |
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Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 7 September 2023
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Short description:
Using the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.
Long description:
In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile engagement, enabling them to effectively work as non-threatening instruments of cultural blending.&&&160;Reconstructing the embodied experience of miniaturization in detailed case studies, Langin-Hooper illuminates the dynamic process of combining Greek and Babylonian sculpture forms, social customs, and viewing habits into new, hybrid works of art. Her innovative focus on figurines as instruments of&&&160;both&&&160;personal encounter and global cultural shifts has important implications for the study of tiny objects in art history, anthropology, classics, and other disciplines.
'It is rare that one finds a book that combines the rigorous and critical knowledge of cutting-edge theory with the hard facts and precise detail of archaeological assemblages. This is such a book. Rich in debate and discussion, broad in thinking and application. A welcome addition to the field.' Douglass Bailey, San Francisco State University
'It is rare that one finds a book that combines the rigorous and critical knowledge of cutting-edge theory with the hard facts and precise detail of archaeological assemblages. This is such a book. Rich in debate and discussion, broad in thinking and application. A welcome addition to the field.' Douglass Bailey, San Francisco State University
Table of Contents:
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.
