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- Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
- Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Naked Male Figurines in the EIA Aegean
- Chapter Three Iconographic and Regional Patterns in EIA Naked Male Figurines and the History of Ritual Action
- Chapter Four The Lost Wax Method of Production of EIA Bronze Figurines
- Chapter Five Bronze Figurines, Transformative Processes, and Ritual Power
- Chapter Six EIA Nudity and Ritual in Historical Perspective
- Chapter Seven Method and Approach in the Archaeology of the EIA Aegean
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Chapter Six - EIA Nudity and Ritual in Historical Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 September 2022
- Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
- Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Naked Male Figurines in the EIA Aegean
- Chapter Three Iconographic and Regional Patterns in EIA Naked Male Figurines and the History of Ritual Action
- Chapter Four The Lost Wax Method of Production of EIA Bronze Figurines
- Chapter Five Bronze Figurines, Transformative Processes, and Ritual Power
- Chapter Six EIA Nudity and Ritual in Historical Perspective
- Chapter Seven Method and Approach in the Archaeology of the EIA Aegean
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
The purpose of this last substantive chapter of the book is twofold. First, I reiterate a number of differences between the interpretation of the naked EIA males that I have presented here and views about them that arose from previous, relational and text-based approaches to the same material. Second, I articulate a number of new questions that may be posed of cultural and ritual history based on this treatment, questions that might not have occurred to historians to ask based on previous reconstructions of the evidence. The goal of this chapter is therefore to highlight how the results of this study may move understanding of EIA nudity forward, while the concluding chapter that follows will comment on the value of the study from the point of view of methodological challenges involved in constructing a non-relational, non-textually determined understanding of EIA society.
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- Male Nudity in the Greek Iron AgeRepresentation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies, pp. 211 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022