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Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
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2019
About this book
When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it?
But how else can we measure monumentality?
Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.
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Frontmatter
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Content
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Preface
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Introduction
11 - Part I. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
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Monuments and Monumentality – different perspectives
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Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology
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Perceiving monumentality
65 - Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
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Monumentalbaukunst – Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum
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Monumentality in context – a reply from Egyptology
99 - Part II. Case Studies
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The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental
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Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor
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Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times
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The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view
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The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE
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La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales
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The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system
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Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE
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Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II
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Monumentality by numbers
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Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Urban Landscape
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Contributors
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 19, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783839445389
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
350
Illustrations:
66
Coloured Illustrations:
14
eBook ISBN:
9783839445389
Keywords for this book
Monumentality; Monumentality; Architecture; Architecture; Energetics; Energetics; Identity; Identity; Labour; Labour; Monument; Monument; Perception; Perception; Reception; Reception; Cultural History; Cultural History; Ancient History; Ancient History; History; History
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
