Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia - Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

This volume investigates the impact of Greek art, particularly Hellenistic sculpture motifs and styles on the figurines of Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. It provides practical applications of two branches of anthropology theory, cultural hybridity and miniaturization, which are explored in detailed case studies.

List 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This volume investigates the impact of Greek art, particularly Hellenistic sculpture motifs and styles on the figurines of Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. It provides practical applications of two branches of anthropology theory, cultural hybridity and miniaturization, which are explored in detailed case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M. (Southern Methodist Un Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M. (Southern Methodist University Langin-Hooper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108488143
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48814-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Japan, Töpferwaren, Keramik und Glashandwerk, Mesopotamia, Anthropology, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Pottery & Ceramics, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Art & Art Instruction, sculpture, Greece, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Social and cultural anthropology, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Babylonia, Physical anthropology, BCE period – Protohistory