Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

ISBN-13: 9781108738460 / Miękka / 2023 / 332 str.

Texas) Langin-H Stephanie M. (Southern Methodist University

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Intimacy, interaction and play, and social norms as activated and understood through the miniature are but some of the themes that Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper rigorously and playfully explores in this volume on various types of anthropomorphic figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia … invites reader engagement and reflection with themes that are highly relevant to both an understanding of, and negotiations within, our own contemporary multicultural worlds.' Leticia R. Rodriguez, Rhea Classical Reviews

Spis treści

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.