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Chapter Five - The Global and the Local: Making Cultural and Social Choices with Figurines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper
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Southern Methodist University, Texas
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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 Babylonia
Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity
, pp. 203 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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