Figurines

Author : Elizabeth A. Waraksa
Publisher : Saint-Paul
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 3525534566

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Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct by Elizabeth A. Waraksa Pdf

"Elizabeth A. Waraksa examines the ceramic female figurines excavated by John Hopkins at the Precinct of Mut in Luxor, Egypt between 2001 and 2004. The figurines date from the New Kingdom to the Late Period (ca. 1550-332 BCE). Ceramic figurines are frequently overlooked by archaeologists, art historians, and social historians because the lack the aesthetic qualities usually associated wit Egyptian art. However, the Hopkins-excavated figurines display features that mark them as standardized ritual objects. Waraksa argues that ceramic female figurines were produced in Workshops, utilized by magician/physicians in healing rituals, and regularly snapped and discarded at the end of their effective "lives". This is a new, broader interpretation for objects that have previously been considered as toys, dolly, concubine figures, and - most recently - votive "fertility figurines"."--Publisher's website

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192605290

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Figurines by Jaś Elsner Pdf

Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentially and without protection within the narrative of figurines. As such, they have potential for a potent, even animated, agency in relation to those who use them. This volume concerns figurines as archaeologically-attested materials from literate cultures with surviving documents that have no direct links of contiguity, appropriation, or influence in relation to each other. It is an attempt to put the category of the figurine on the table as a key conceptual and material problematic in the art history of antiquity. It does so through comparative juxtaposition of close-focused chapters drawn from deep art-historical engagement with specific ancient cultures - Chinese, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican, and Greco-Roman. It encourages comparative conversation across the disciplines that constitute the art history of the ancient world through finding categories and models of discourse that may offer fertile ground for comparison and antithesis. It extends the rich and astute literature on prehistoric figurines into understanding the figurine in historical contexts, where literary texts and documents, inscriptions, or surviving terminologies can be adduced alongside material culture. At stake are issues of figuration and anthropomorphism, miniaturization and portability, one-off production and replication, and substitution and scale at the interface of archaeology and art history.

Author : Douglass Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134323302

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Prehistoric Figurines by Douglass Bailey Pdf

This book explores the ways that people use representations of human bodies to make subtle political points and to understand their own identities and to negotiate their relationships with friends and enemies. The author moves the debate past the interpretations of figurines as Mother-Goddess and investigates individual prehistoric figurines in their original archaeological contexts and in terms of modern exploitations of the human form.

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191663093

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The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines by Timothy Insoll Pdf

Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally. The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first book to offer a comparative survey of this kind, bringing together approaches from across the landscape of contemporary research into a definitive resource in the field. The volume is comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible, with dedicated and fully illustrated chapters covering figurines from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and the Pacific laid out by geographical location and written by the foremost scholars in figurine studies; wherever prehistoric figurines are found they have been expertly described and examined in relation to their subject matter, form, function, context, chronology, meaning, and interpretation. Specific themes that are discussed by contributors include, for example, theories of figurine interpretation, meaning in processes and contexts of figurine production, use, destruction and disposal, and the cognitive and social implications of representation. Chronologically, the coverage ranges from the Middle Palaeolithic through to areas and periods where an absence of historical sources renders figurines 'prehistoric' even though they might have been produced in the mid-2nd millennium AD, as in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The result is a synthesis of invaluable insights into past thinking on the human body, gender, identity, and how the figurines might have been used, either practically, ritually, or even playfully.

Author : Christina T. Halperin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292771307

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Maya Figurines by Christina T. Halperin Pdf

Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these often neglected objects and uses them to draw out relationships between the Maya state and its subjects. These figurines provide a unique perspective for understanding Maya social and political relations; Christina T. Halperin argues that state politics work on the microscale of everyday routines, localized rituals, and small-scale representations. Her comprehensive study brings together archeology, anthropology, and art history with theories of material culture, performance, political economy, ritual humor, and mimesis to make a fascinating case for the role politics plays in daily life. What she finds is that, by comparing small-scale figurines with state-sponsored, often large-scale iconography and elite material culture, one can understand how different social realms relate to and represent one another. In Maya Figurines, Halperin compares objects from diverse households, archeological sites, and regions, focusing especially on figurines from Petén, Guatemala, and comparing them to material culture from Belize, the northern highlands of Guatemala, the Usumacinta River, the Campeche coastal area, and Mesoamerican sites outside the Maya zone. Ultimately, she argues, ordinary objects are not simply passive backdrops for important social and political phenomena. Instead, they function as significant mechanisms through which power and social life are intertwined.

Author : Stephanie Langin-Hooper
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Figurines, Ancient
ISBN : 9780991553310

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Figuring Out the Figurines of the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Langin-Hooper Pdf

This volume contains 4 papers focusing on terracotta figurines of the ancient Near East that were delivered at one of three sessions of the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Author : Richard G. Lesure
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139496155

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Interpreting Ancient Figurines by Richard G. Lesure Pdf

This book examines ancient figurines from several world areas to address recurring challenges in the interpretation of prehistoric art. Sometimes figurines from one context are perceived to resemble those from another. Richard G. Lesure asks whether such resemblances play a role in our interpretations. Early interpreters seized on the idea that figurines were recurringly female and constructed the fanciful myth of a primordial Neolithic Goddess. Contemporary practice instead rejects interpretive leaps across contexts. Dr Lesure offers a middle path: a new framework for assessing the relevance of particular comparisons. He develops the argument in case studies that consider figurines from Paleolithic Europe, the Neolithic Near East and Formative Mesoamerica.

Author : Caitlín Barrett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004222663

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Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos by Caitlín Barrett Pdf

This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of figurines of Egyptian deities from Delos. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between “popular” and “official” cults.

Author : Maciej Makowski
Publisher : Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788394800482

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Tell Arbid I. Clay Figurines by Maciej Makowski Pdf

Author : Izaak J. de Hulster
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161555503

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Figurines in Achaemenid Period Yehud by Izaak J. de Hulster Pdf

Were there figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period, and in particular in Jerusalem? A positive answer to this question disproves the general consensus about the absence of figurines in Yehud, which is built on the assumption that the figurines excavated in Judah/Yehud are chronologically indicative for Iron Age II in this area (aside from a few typological exceptions). Ephraim Stern and others have taken this alleged absence of figurines as indicative of Jewish monotheism's rise. Izaak J. de Hulster refutes this `no figurines -> monotheism' paradigm by detailed study of the figurines from Yigal Shiloh's excavation in the 'City of David' (especially their contexts in Stratum 9), providing ample evidence for the presence of figurines in post-587/586 Jerusalem. The author further reflects on the paradigm's premises in archaeology, history, the history of religion, theology, and biblical studies, and particularly in coroplastics (figurine studies).

Author : Erin Darby
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161524926

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Interpreting Judean Pillar Figurines by Erin Darby Pdf

"Judean Pillar Figurines regularly appear in discussions about Israelite religion, monotheism, and female practice. Erin Darby uses Near Eastern texts, iconography, the Hebrew Bible, and the archeology of Jerusalem to explore figurine function, the gender of figurine users, and the relationship between Judean figurines and the Assyrian Empire"--Back cover.

Author : Vassos Karageorghis,Terence Brennan
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0924171758

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Ayia Paraskevi Figurines in the University of Pennsylvania Museum by Vassos Karageorghis,Terence Brennan Pdf

The 17 figurines published here are but a small sample of the objects excavated more than 100 years ago at the Bronze Age necropolis at the site of Ayia Paraskevi in Cyprus. Vassos Karageorghis introduces the volume with an insightful essay on the significance of the site and one of its early excavators, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. Terence Brennan contributes information on the history of the Museum's acquisition of these pieces based on a 12-year correspondence between Sara Yorke Stevenson, one of the Museum's early founders, and Ohnefalsch-Richter. The volume contains a detailed catalogue of the 17 figurines, including bibliography and comparanda.

Author : Edgar Peltenburg,Diane Bolger,Lindy Crewe
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789250220

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Figurine Makers of Prehistoric Cyprus by Edgar Peltenburg,Diane Bolger,Lindy Crewe Pdf

The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios’ excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artifacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. Chief among these are a multitude of cruciform figurines and pendants. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors. Excavations at the Laona settlement have furnished evidence suggesting that it functioned as a specialised center for the procurement and manufacture of picrolite during its early phase. The subsequent decline of picrolite production and the earliest known occurrence of new types of ornaments, such as faience beads and copper spiral pendants, attest to important changes involving the transformation of personal and social identities during the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BC, a topic that forms a central theme of this final report on the site.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435065917098

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf