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OverviewMiniature and fragmentary objects are both eye-catching and yet easily dismissed. Tiny scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us, offering tactile reminders of reality's transience. Yet, the standard scholarly approach to such objects has been to see them as secondary, incomplete things, whose principal purpose was to refer to a complete and often life-size whole.The Tiny and the Fragmented 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 classical Mediterranean and ancient Near East. Each scholar takes a different approach to issues of miniaturization and fragmentation but is united in considering the little and broken things of the past as objects in their own right. Whether a life-size or whole thing is made in a scaled-down form, deliberately broken as part of its use, or only considered successful in the eyes of ancient users if it shows some signs of wear, it challenges our expectations of representation and wholeness, of what it means for a work of art to be finished and affective. Overall, The Tiny and the Fragmented demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. Rebecca Martin (Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program, Boston University) , Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper (Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture, Southern Methodist University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780190614812ISBN 10: 0190614811 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 27 November 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContributors to the Volume Chapter 1: In/Complete: An Introduction to the Theories of Miniaturization and Fragmentation S. Rebecca Martin and Stephanie Langin-Hooper Chapter 2: Breaking Bodies and Biographies: Figurines of the Playa de los Muertos Tradition Rosemary Joyce Chapter 3: Tiny and Fragmented Votive Offerings from Classical Antiquity Jessica Faye Hughes Chapter 4: Divinity In Part or In Full? Representations of Tanit in Texts and Art S. Rebecca Martin Chapter 5: Style as a Fragment of the Ancient World Marian H. Feldman Chapter 6: Stronger at the Broken Places: Affect in Hellenistic Babylonian Miniatures with Separately-Made and Attached Limbs Stephanie Langin-Hooper Chapter 7: Tiny Bodies for Intimate Worlds. Human Figurines in Iberian Iron Age Sanctuaries Mireia Lopez-Bertran and Jaime Vives-Ferrandiz Chapter 8: Incomplete: The Uneasy Powers of Holes, Cut Surfaces, and Neolithic Pit-Houses Doug Bailey Chapter 9: A Response: Scaling the Walls of Persepolis toward an Imaginal Social/Material Landscape Margaret Cool Root IndexReviewsA compelling interdisciplinary re-evaluation of the tiny and the broken in the archaeological record. The papers in this volume challenge the basic dichotomies of miniature and monumental, fragment and whole, to push beyond understanding miniatures through reconstruction and type. Instead these studies, ranging from Honduran figurines to Classical anatomical votives, use new theoretical approaches to reconsider what constitutes completeness and to re-imagine what these objects do and how people interact with them. A must-read contribution that elucidates the power and allure of the small and fragmentary. -- Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton University The Tiny and the Fragmented offers insightful perspectives on the nature of small, or partially-preserved, archaeological finds that challenge prevailing notions about the perceived importance of 'completeness' as it pertains to the archaeological record. Reflective of new theoretical approaches, the nine papers in this volume each provide a different roadmap to follow for a deeper understanding of purposeful user entanglement with material culture in the ancient world. As a result of reading these papers we learn that fragmentation and miniaturization may have been one of the means by which culturally coded messages were transmitted across complex socio-religious networks. -- Jaimee Uhlenbrock, SUNY New Paltz The Tiny and the Fragmented presents the best of new directions in interdisciplinarity in ancient studies - bringing anthropology and art history, classics and archaeology in conversation around important theoretical questions of scale, miniaturization and the unfinished, and considering how these questions can contribute to a better understanding of the archaeological record. -- Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University The Tiny and the Fragmented presents the best of new directions in interdisciplinarity in ancient studies - bringing anthropology and art history, classics and archaeology in conversation around important theoretical questions of scale, miniaturization and the unfinished, and considering how these questions can contribute to a better understanding of the archaeological record. * Zainab Bahrani, Columbia University * The Tiny and the Fragmented offers insightful perspectives on the nature of small, or partially-preserved, archaeological finds that challenge prevailing notions about the perceived importance of 'completeness' as it pertains to the archaeological record. Reflective of new theoretical approaches, the nine papers in this volume each provide a different roadmap to follow for a deeper understanding of purposeful user entanglement with material culture in the ancient world. As a result of reading these papers we learn that fragmentation and miniaturization may have been one of the means by which culturally coded messages were transmitted across complex socio-religious networks. * Jaimee Uhlenbrock, SUNY New Paltz * A compelling interdisciplinary re-evaluation of the tiny and the broken in the archaeological record. The papers in this volume challenge the basic dichotomies of miniature and monumental, fragment and whole, to push beyond understanding miniatures through reconstruction and type. Instead these studies, ranging from Honduran figurines to Classical anatomical votives, use new theoretical approaches to reconsider what constitutes completeness and to re-imagine what these objects do and how people interact with them. A must-read contribution that elucidates the power and allure of the small and fragmentary. * Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton University * Author InformationS. Rebecca Martin is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture in the Department of History & Architecture and Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program at Boston University. She is the author of The Art of Contact Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art (2017). Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper is Assistant Professor and Karl Kilinski II Endowed Chair in Hellenic Visual Culture Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on issues of miniaturization, identity, and cross-cultural interaction in the terracotta figurines of Hellenistic Babylonia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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