Worlds in miniature : contemplating miniaturisation in global material culture /: contemplating miniaturisation in global material culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jack Davy, Charlotte Dixon.
• Editors: Davy, Jack; Dixon, Charlotte
• Contents: 1. What Makes a Miniature?: an introduction; Jack Davy and Charlotte Dixon; 2. Exmoor’s minilithic enigma; Douglas Mitcham ; 3. Miniaturisation in early Egypt; GraziaA. Di Pietro ; 4. Miniaturisation among the Makah; Jack Davy ; 5. Interview with Cliff Swallow and Pat Howard, boat model makers; Cliff Swallow and Pat Howard with Charlotte Dixon ; 6. Miniaturising boats: the case of the Indian masula surf boat; Charlotte Dixon ; 7. Composing Warao indigeneity and miniatures: A human-nonhuman working group ; Christian Sørhaug; 8. A sense of scale: the miniaturisation of boats and maritime landscapes at the Science Museum London, 1925-1963; James Lyon Fenner ; 9. Interview with Henry Milner, architectural model maker; Henry Milner with Jack Davy ; 10. Some Thoughts on the Measure of Objects; Susanne Küchler
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 306; Material culture; Miniature objects -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787356511; 9781787356528
• Related ISBNs: 9781787356504; 9781787356498
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