Worlds in Miniature: Contemplating Miniaturisation in Global Material Culture

Author:   Jack Davy ,  Charlotte Dixon
Publisher:   UCL Press
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Pages:   206
Publication Date:   08 July 2019
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Author:   Jack Davy ,  Charlotte Dixon
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781787356498


ISBN 10:   1787356493
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   08 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of 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 Grazia A. 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

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Jack Davy is currently Senior Research Assistant at the University of East Anglia, working on an AHRC project on Native American history. He previously worked at the British Museum and Horniman Museum, and obtained a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD in Anthropology from UCL and the British Museum in 2017. Charlotte Dixon currently works in education at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. She previously worked at Southampton City Council Arts and Heritage and obtained a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton and British Museum in 2018.

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