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The tiny and the fragmented : miniature, broken, or otherwise incomplete objects in the ancient world /

The book offers a series of fresh perspectives on the familiar concepts of the tiny and the fragmented. Written by a prestigious group of internationally-acclaimed scholars, the volume presents a remarkable diversity of case studies that range from Neolithic Europe to pre-Colombian Honduras to the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martin, S. Rebecca (Editor ), Langin-Hooper, Stephanie M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In/complete: an introduction to the theories of miniaturization and fragmentation / S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
  • Breaking bodies and biographies: figurines of the Playa de los Muertos tradition / Rosemary A. Joyce
  • Tiny and fragmented votive offerings from classical antiquity / Jessica Hughes
  • Divinity in part or in full? : representations of Tanit in texts and art / S. Rebecca Martin
  • Style as a fragment of the ancient world: a view from the Iron Age Levant and Assyria / Marian H. Feldman
  • Stronger at the broken places: affect in Hellenistic Babylonian miniatures with separately made and attached limbs / Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
  • Tiny bodies for intimate worlds : human figurines in Iberian iron age sanctuaries / Mireia López-Bertran and Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz
  • Incomplete: the uneasy powers of holes, cut surfaces, and neolithic pit-houses / Doug Bailey
  • A response: scaling the walls of Persepolis toward an imaginal social/material landscape / Margaret Cool Root.