Book contents
- Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
- Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- Chapter One A Question of Intimacy: Miniaturization and Figurines
- Chapter Two Fascination with the Tiny: Interacting with Figurines
- Chapter Three Three’s a Crowd: Spectatorship of Figurines
- Chapter Four Images of the Self: Identifying with Figurines
- Chapter Five The Global and the Local: Making Cultural and Social Choices with Figurines
- Conclusion: Life in Miniature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Five - The Global and the Local: Making Cultural and Social Choices with Figurines
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
- Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- Chapter One A Question of Intimacy: Miniaturization and Figurines
- Chapter Two Fascination with the Tiny: Interacting with Figurines
- Chapter Three Three’s a Crowd: Spectatorship of Figurines
- Chapter Four Images of the Self: Identifying with Figurines
- Chapter Five The Global and the Local: Making Cultural and Social Choices with Figurines
- Conclusion: Life in Miniature
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The fifth chapter situates Babylonia and its miniature objects within the wider Hellenistic koine, revealing both the firmly local nature of this figurine tradition, as well as its connections to a rapidly globalizing Greek world. Figurines of “othered” bodies are also analyzed in this chapter in order to show that difference in Hellenistic Babylonia was conceived of in multiple ways, not just cultural or geographical – and that, in the end, the figurines reflect a society that was generally endeavoring to integrate and smooth over differences, rather than to highlight and ostracize based upon them.
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- Figurines in Hellenistic BabyloniaMiniaturization and Cultural Hybridity, pp. 203 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020