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H 297 x W 210 mm

162 pages

Illustrated throughout in black and white

Published Feb 2015

Archaeopress Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781784910563

Digital: 9781784910570

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Experiencing Etruscan Pots

Ceramics, Bodies and Images in Etruria

By Lucy Shipley

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What was it like to use and live with Etruscan pottery? Characterising that experience of Etruscan pottery is the concern of this book. More specifically, this volume aims to unpick both the physical encounter between vessel and hand, and the emotional interaction between the user of a pot and the images inscribed upon its surface.

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Contents

Introduction; Traditions and Trajectories; Thinking 'things' through: a phenomenology of objects; Quantifying Experience - Methodologies; Touching and Feeling: Vessel Bodies; Seeing and Revealing: Images on Pots; Experiencing Bodies: Bodies in Images on Pots; From Being to Doing: Actions of Bodies on Pots; Pots, People, and Experience: Conclusions; Pottery Corpus; Bibliography; Index