I’m
very pleased that my chapter, “Against Nature: Tree-Shaking Action in Minoan
Glyptic Art as Agonistic Behaviour” has been published in the conference
proceedings of the Aegean Gestures conference. Gesture, Stance, and Movement: Communicating
Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age. Acts of the International Conference at the
University of Heidelberg, 11–13 November 2021, edited by Ute Günkel-Maschek,
Céline Murphy, Fritz Blakolmer, and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos.
Description
Gestures,
posture and facial expressions are central to conveying meaning through action
and physical communication. In works of art, they represent active or
communicative aspects of the figures and relate them to one another in coherent
narratives. This is particularly important for understanding ancient contexts
of meaning, especially in the study of societies with a limited corpus of
deciphered texts, such as those of the Aegean from the Neolithic to the Late
Bronze Age. The volume, which emerged from a conference in Heidelberg in 2021,
deals in 29 contributions with old hypotheses and new approaches to
interpreting 'body language' in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.
The
whole book is open access. See the complete Table of Contents and download the
book for free from Propylaeum Ebooks
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