Minoan Zoomorphic Culture

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Between Bodies and Things

Emily S. K. Anderson (The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland)

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Cambridge University Press
06 June 2024

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social & cultural history; Archaeology by period & region

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.

By: Emily S. K. Anderson (The Johns Hopkins University Maryland)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 263mm, Width: 186mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9781009452038
ISBN 10: 1009452037
Pages: 430
Publication Date: 06 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily S. K. Anderson teaches in the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, where her work focuses on the visual and material cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age and the ongoing lives of ancient forms and materials. She is the author of Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete (2016).

Reviews for Minoan Zoomorphic Culture: Between Bodies and Things

'… brings together a huge amount of detailed information on these many beautiful objects and images. Anderson combines various perspectives to deliver new ideas on how one can study 'animalian things' in order to understand how the Minoans interacted, shaped and populated their own lives with animals and fantastic creatures alike.' Marion Uckelmann, Antiquity