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 Three - Three’s a Crowd: Spectatorship of 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 power of miniatures to reshape social life is the topic of Chapter 3, which examines spectatorship of figurines depicting mothers with children, couples, and musician groups. The visual portrayal and tactile accessibility of these miniaturized “relationships,” as well as the absence of other social relationships in the figurine corpus, established expectations and limits on acceptable social structures.
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- Figurines in Hellenistic BabyloniaMiniaturization and Cultural Hybridity, pp. 100 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020