Breaking Images

Contributors

Preface



At the dawn of a break: The agency of the damage

1. In the footsteps of Auguste Rodin: Fragmentation is not an end

Gianluca Miniaci

2. The meaning of deliberate figurine fragmentation: Insights from the Old and New Worlds

John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska

Beyond ritual: When the whole cracks

3. In the beginning: Exploring integrity of anthropomorphic images in prehistoric Europe

Elisabetta Starnini

4. When garbage is art: Broken ceramic figural objects from ancient Honduras

Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary A. Joyce

5. Parts, not wholes: Long histories and negative space analysis

Stacy Boldrick

6. Not whole yet holy: Some breakage rituals and their significance in Hinduism and other religions of India

Urmi Chanda

The materiality of the damage: Searching for the intentionality

7. Broken beyond repair. Reflections on the intentionality of breakage and its archaeological identification regarding Naqada period clay figurines

Axelle Bremont

8. The materiality of the damage in the faience figurine corpus from late Middle Bronze Age Egypt (1800-1550 BC)

Gianluca Miniaci

9. Breaking into pieces: An experimental investigation into fracture behaviours in ceramic female figurines

Paulina Wandowicz

10. Intentionality in the breaking. A case study of intentional damaging of figurines at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) and Catalhoeyuek (Turkey)

Monique Arntz

11. Fragmented or intact - Mycenaean figurines and figures in cult and burial contexts

Ann-Louise Schallin

Inside the fragmentation: Exploring methods and technologies

12. Made it for breaking it? Assessing fragmentation of the Lahun figurines (Egypt, MBA II, c. 1800-1700 BC)

Vanessa Forte

13. Displaying the fragmented: Damaged and mutilated ancient Egyptian figures from Sir Charles Nicholson's collection

Candace Richards and Michelle F. Whitford

14. Broken collections: A 3D approach to the digital reunification and holistic study of dispersed terracotta figurines assemblages

Valentina Vassallo

Concluding remarks

Afterword: Strong at the broken places?

Caitlin Eilis Barrett

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• Teoria da arqueologia
• Metodologia e técnicas da arqueologia

Archaeological Method & Theory; Archaeological Method & Theory/Theory; artefact; broken artefact; figurines; Fragment; fragmentation; fragmented artefact; material relationship; object; ontology; permeability; ritual relationship; social relationship