Karen Polinger Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 218345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Polinger Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Polinger |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Re-centering labour in local food
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers, migrant farmworkers, and farmers' market consumers in the province, we suggest that the celebration of local food by government and industry is a form of "local washing." Local washing hides key aspects of the social relations of production: in this case, it hides insufficient financial and policy supp…
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) include non-ordinary mind states that may be induced by external agents or occur spontaneously. Among them is ecstasy, which Harry Hoffner (1992: 103) describes in his study on the Syrian cultural influence in the Hittite world as “a mental state appropriate for reception of a divine revelation.” The aim of this study is to determine whether such states are mentioned in the Hittite texts, how they were achie…
Strange and Wonderful
"Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art"
Exotica and Europe
This chapter focuses on exotica in Europe. Many of the botanical and zoological aspects of Versailles were supported by increasingly rigorous scientific studies being carried out in Paris. Since the early 1500s, France’s botanists had sought a permanent facility where living plant specimens could be studied. Indeed, the French were eager to establish a counterpart to the successful research gardens organized in Padua and Pisa. The Jardin du Roi i…
Knowing the Unknown
This chapter looks at the various existence of exotica in the Classical, Byzantine, and Islamic periods. Through Egyptian intermediaries, monkeys from elsewhere in Africa reached Minoan Crete and the Cyclades during the first half of the second millennium B.C.E. Dozens of them appear thereafter in wall paintings, seals, and jewelry, engaging in animal and human activities in formal and informal settings. From the seventh century on, gradually exp…
Crossing the Atlantic
This chapter explores the existence of exotica in America. The flora and fauna of the Americas offered fresh scope for demonstrating the centrality of European culture. New species had to be ordered, classified, named, and fitted within established parameters. From the start, the same was true for native peoples. Furthermore, pictorial and textual descriptions were used to advance several agendas with far-reaching consequences. Primarily to encou…
True and Proper Pictures
This chapter assesses the representation of exotica in European art. This depiction sheds considerable light on the constructs of veracity and the bounds of imagery, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. In addition to their subsidiary but vital roles in historical landscape and commemorative narrative, exotica served as the principals in natural history illustration. Among the first works with detailed, if schematized, illuminations of…
Mari and the Minoans
Communities of Style
Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant. By Marian H. Feldman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 250, illus. $70
The Birthplace of Civilization
New light on old pumice
The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh
Though for over two millennia much has been written and said about the Hanging Gardens, they remain elusive. Neither the extensive excavations at the city of Babylon nor the abundant contemporaneous cuneiform records have yielded convincing evidence for these gardens and their associated structures. Herodotus says not a word about them. Instead, we have the descriptions of five later writers, who were themselves quoted and paraphrased by others a…
Recent Books for Teaching Egyptian Art and Archaeology
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
Monumental Art of the Assyrian Empire
Thera in the Bronze Age
Rodrigues, Louis J. Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims & Heroic Legends
Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption
A Flight of Swallows
Recent ornithological research on swallow behavior has inspired a fresh look at the well-known flight painted on three walls of room Delta 2 at Akrotiri, Thera. The standard interpretation is that the birds are courting. while an alternative proposal has them feeding fledglings in midair. Instead, the swallows are exhibiting classic signs of aggressive, high-intensity display, the object of which is possession of airborne feathers for use in nest…
Thera and the Aegean World III. 1
Building in Egypt
Lost Tombs
The Aegean and the East
The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera
The wall paintings from the Cycladic island of Thera have astonished and delighted the archaeological world with the richness of their content and the remarkable state of their preservation. This book sets out to analyse the iconographic details of the miniature paintings, placing each within the broader context of the Aegean world. The book is illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs - the majority of the latter being the author's own cl…
New light on old pumice
X‐ray Fluorescence Analysis of Some Minoan Faience
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
Altered states of consciousness (ASCs) include non-ordinary mind states that may be induced by external agents or occur spontaneously. Among them is ecstasy, which Harry Hoffner (1992: 103) describes in his study on the Syrian cultural influence in the Hittite world as “a mental state appropriate for reception of a divine revelation.” The aim of this study is to determine whether such states are mentioned in the Hittite texts, how they were achie…
Re-centering labour in local food
This article explores the labour behind local food in the Canadian Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. Based on surveys and interviews with farmers, migrant farmworkers, and farmers' market consumers in the province, we suggest that the celebration of local food by government and industry is a form of "local washing." Local washing hides key aspects of the social relations of production: in this case, it hides insufficient financial and policy supp…
Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption
A Flight of Swallows
Recent ornithological research on swallow behavior has inspired a fresh look at the well-known flight painted on three walls of room Delta 2 at Akrotiri, Thera. The standard interpretation is that the birds are courting. while an alternative proposal has them feeding fledglings in midair. Instead, the swallows are exhibiting classic signs of aggressive, high-intensity display, the object of which is possession of airborne feathers for use in nest…
Thera and the Aegean World III. 1
The Aegean and the East
Archaeology
Archaeology
A Lapidary's Gift to Geštinanna
Among the ancient Near Eastern objects in the Newell Bequest collection at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, is the gypsum stand published herewith. On the basis of its dedicatory inscription, which will be discussed in detail below, the object's provenance can be established as the sanctuary of Ningizzida and Geštinanna at Girsu (Telloh). The piece was probably found when the sanctuary was plundered by illegal diggers in August, 1924. At t…
Fouilles Exécutées à Mallia. Le Quartier Mu, II
X‐ray Fluorescence Analysis of Some Minoan Faience
Pharaohs and Mortals
Decoration of Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom
De l'Indus aux Balkans
The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera
The wall paintings from the Cycladic island of Thera have astonished and delighted the archaeological world with the richness of their content and the remarkable state of their preservation. This book sets out to analyse the iconographic details of the miniature paintings, placing each within the broader context of the Aegean world. The book is illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs - the majority of the latter being the author's own cl…
Lost Tombs
The Aegean and the East
Building in Egypt
Thera and the Aegean World III. 1
A Flight of Swallows
Recent ornithological research on swallow behavior has inspired a fresh look at the well-known flight painted on three walls of room Delta 2 at Akrotiri, Thera. The standard interpretation is that the birds are courting. while an alternative proposal has them feeding fledglings in midair. Instead, the swallows are exhibiting classic signs of aggressive, high-intensity display, the object of which is possession of airborne feathers for use in nest…
Rodrigues, Louis J. Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims & Heroic Legends
Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption
Thera in the Bronze Age
The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium
Monumental Art of the Assyrian Empire
Recent Books for Teaching Egyptian Art and Archaeology
The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh
Though for over two millennia much has been written and said about the Hanging Gardens, they remain elusive. Neither the extensive excavations at the city of Babylon nor the abundant contemporaneous cuneiform records have yielded convincing evidence for these gardens and their associated structures. Herodotus says not a word about them. Instead, we have the descriptions of five later writers, who were themselves quoted and paraphrased by others a…
The Birthplace of Civilization
New light on old pumice
Communities of Style
Communities of Style: Portable Luxury Arts, Identity, and Collective Memory in the Iron Age Levant. By Marian H. Feldman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 250, illus. $70
Mari and the Minoans
Strange and Wonderful
"Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art"
History (27 works) · Art (20 works) · Ancient history (16 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (11 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (10 works) · Art history (10 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Classics (7 works)