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

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 

Ute Günkel-Maschek (Hrsg.), Céline Murphy (Hrsg.), Fritz Blakolmer (Hrsg.), Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Hrsg.)  

 Gesten, Haltung und Mimik sind zentral für die Vermittlung von Bedeutung durch Handlung und körperliche Kommunikation. In Bildwerken stellen sie aktive oder kommunikative Aspekte der Figuren dar und setzen sie in kohärenten Erzählungen zueinander in Beziehung. Gerade in der Erforschung von Gesellschaften mit einem begrenzten Korpus entzifferter Texte, wie jenen der Ägäis vom Neolithikum bis zur Spätbronzezeit, ist dies für das Verständnis antiker Sinnzusammenhänge besonders wichtig. Der aus einer Heidelberger Tagung von 2021 hervorgegangene Band befasst sich in 29 Beiträgen mit alten Hypothesen und neuen Interpretationsansätzen zur ‚Körpersprache‘ im minoischen Kreta und im mykenischen Griechenland.

2021, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1309

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21.11.2024

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Contents

Ute Günkel-Maschek, Céline Murphy, Fritz Blakolmer, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos

Preface

7

Ute Günkel-Maschek, Céline Murphy, Fritz Blakolmer, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos

Introduction

Communicating Bodies in Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology

9-19

I. Frameworks of Analysis for Communicating Bodies

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos

Powerless Images

(Mis-)Reading Gestures and Stances in Aegean Iconography

23-41

Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

Overt and Covert Bodily Communication in Bronze Age Crete

43-59

Katerina Giannaki

The Function of Minoan Cheironomy

61-75

II. Communication Through Expression and Movement

Fritz Blakolmer

Beyond the Body

Facial Expression, Human Interaction and Narrativity in Aegean Iconography

79-97

Lyvia Morgan

Gesture and Movement in Wall Paintings as Directives of Viewing

99-117

Lucie Valentinová

The ‘Seated Woman’ of the Adorants Fresco from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera

Female Initiation or Non-Narrative Absorption?

119-127

Maria Mina

Feeling Around in the Dark

Bodily Movement as Multisensorial Experience in Minoan Cavernous Spaces

129-139

III. Gesture, Posture, and Societal Matters

Céline Murphy

The Orientation and Posture of the Human Torso as a Convention in Neopalatial Iconography

143-164

Diana Wolf

“Ariadne’s Dance”

Staging Female Gesture in Neopalatial Soft-Stone Glyptic

165-181

Susan C. Ferrence, Philip P. Betancourt, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, James D. Muhly, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, David W. Rupp

A Golden Embrace

Early Bronze Age Connection between Eastern Crete and Uruk?

183-202

IV. Of Deities and Humans

Eleni Drakaki

‘Hands to the Chest’

A Gesture of Power for Gods and Humans Alike?

205-216

Alexia Spiliotopoulou

The Gesture of the Male Bronze Figurine from Katsambas

217-233

Louise A. Hitchcock , Madaline Harris-Schober

From the Here and Now, to the There and Then

The Most Powerful Woman of Minoan Crete?

235-241

Bernice R. Jones

The Iconography of the Knossos Snake Goddesses Based on Their Gestures, Stances, Movements and Attributes

243-257

Philip P. Betancourt

Did the Goddess with Upraised Arms Have a Bench Shrine in the Inatos Cave?

259-265

V. Communication in Ritual Action

Stephanie Aulsebrook

Too Hot to Handle?

Vessel-Based Gestures in Aegean Bronze Age Iconography

269-274

Caroline Tully

Against Nature

Tree-Shaking Action in Minoan Glyptic Art as Agonistic Behaviour

275-289

Laetitia Phialon

A Simple Touch?

Reassessing Aegean Bronze Age Depictions of Human and Animal Figures Interacting with a Tree or a Column

291-305

Tina Boloti

do-ra pe-re

The Ritual Processions of the Aegean 2nd Millennium B.C. Re-visited

307-313

VI. Gesture, Posture, Sex, and Gender

Paz Ramirez-Valiente

Gesturing Age, Posturing Gender

The Neolithic Antecedents of Bodily Comportment in the Aegean

313-333

Christos Kekes

‘Hands on Abdomen’

Unveiling the Polysemy of an Aegean Gesture

335-350

Michele Mitrovich

Minoan Waist-to-Hip Ratios, Exposed Breasts, and Sexual Selection

Applying Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology to the Iconography of the Human Body in Bronze Age Crete

351-370

VII. Stances of Triumph, Defeat, and Combat

Filip Franković , Uroš Matić

The Last Man Standing

Body Poses of Victorious and Defeated Warriors in Late Bronze Age Aegean Iconography and Their Egyptian Comparanda

373-378

Nanno Marinatos

Gestures of Dominance in Minoan Art

The Influence of Egypt

379-388

Veronika Verešová

Triumph and Defeat

Emulating the Postures of Near Eastern Rulers and Deities in Aegean Bronze Age Iconography

389-404

Robert B. Koehl

The Mycenaean ‘Lunge and Thrust’

405-413

VIII. Death and the Communicative Body

Sotiria Kiorpe

Disarticulated Bones, Articulated Narratives

Exploring Mortuary Gestures and Their Meaning at the Petras Cemetery, Siteia, Crete

417-423

Jacob E. Heywood

Funeral or ‘Biography’?

Re-considering the Potential Identities of Figures on the LM III A2 Agia Triada Sarcophagus

425-430

Ute Günkel-Maschek

Adoration and Visionary Practices, or Expressions of Lamentation and Grief in Bronze Age Crete?