Verfasst von:	Anderson, Emily S. K. [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Minoan zoomorphic culture
Titelzusatz:	between bodies and things
Verf.angabe:	Emily S.K. Anderson, The Johns Hopkins University
Verlagsort:	Cambridge
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	x, 418 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-407) and index
ISBN:	978-1-009-45203-8
Abstract:	"Minoan renderings of animals are some of the most vibrant art of the ancient Mediterranean. Working with current developments in material-culture studies, animal studies, and ancient art, Anderson examines these objects not as mere representations but as uniquely real embodiments of animals that made powerful contributions to sociocultural life"--
	Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals-engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls-contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities
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Schlagwörter:	(s)Minoische Kultur    / (g)Griechische Inseln    / (s)Tierdarstellung    / (s)Kultur
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Ancient history: to c 500 CE
	Antike
	Archaeology by period / region
	Archäologische Fundstätten
	HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
	HISTORY / Social History
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
	Social & cultural history
	Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Geograph. SW:	Altes Griechenland
	Ancient Greece
	Greek islands
	Griechische Inseln
Zeit-SW:	BCE to c 500 CE
	ca. 2000 bis ca. 1000 v. Chr
	ca. 3000 bis ca. 2000 v. Chr
K10plus-PPN:	1872066933