Karen Polinger Foster

Datos Biográficos

ID218345
NOMBREKaren Polinger Foster
NOMBRESKaren Polinger
APELLIDOFoster
FIRMAFOSTER K P
AFILIACIONESYale University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAS32
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H3

  • Re-centering labour in local food

    Open AccessElizabeth Fitting, C Bryan et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 16

    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

    Benjamin R Foster, Karen Polinger FosterBOOKCivilizations of Ancient Iraq2021

  • The Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World

    Diana L Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello et al.BOOKRoutledge Companion to Ecstatic…2021Citada por: 3

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterBOOKStrange and Wonderful2020

    "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

    Karen Polinger FosterCHAPTERStrange and Wonderful2020

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterCHAPTERStrange and Wonderful2020

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterCHAPTERStrange and Wonderful2020

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterCHAPTERStrange and Wonderful2020

    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

    Open AccessKaren Polinger FosterARTICLEGroniek2018Referencias: 1

  • Communities of Style

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2017

    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

    Benjamin R Foster, Karen Polinger FosterCHAPTERCivilizations of Ancient Iraq2009

  • New light on old pumice

    Open AccessJ H Sterba, Karen Polinger Foster et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Citada por: 8

  • The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEIraq2004

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology2001

  • The Aegean and the Orient in the Second Millennium

    Karen Polinger Foster, Eric H Cline et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2000Citada por: 5

  • Monumental Art of the Assyrian Empire

    Karen Polinger Foster, Pauline AlbendaARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2000

  • Thera in the Bronze Age

    Karen Polinger Foster, Phyllis Young ForsythARTICLEThe Classical World1999

  • Rodrigues, Louis J. Anglo-Saxon Verse Charms, Maxims & Heroic Legends

    Karen Polinger Foster, Karen FosterARTICLEANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short…1996

  • Texts, Storms, and the Thera Eruption

    Karen Polinger Foster, Robert K Ritner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1996Citada por: 2

  • A Flight of Swallows

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1995Citada por: 1

    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

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1993Citada por: 1

  • Building in Egypt

    Karen Polinger Foster, Dieter ArnoldARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Lost Tombs

    Karen Polinger Foster, Lise MannicheARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Aegean and the East

    Karen Polinger FosterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1991Citada por: 1

  • The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera

    Karen Polinger Foster, Lyvia MorganARTICLEThe Classical World1990

    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…