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Miniaturisation is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually, but not always, for purposes different to those of the larger original object. Worlds in Miniature brings together researchers working across various regions, time periods and disciplines to explore the subject of miniaturisation as a material culture technique. It offers original contribution to the field of miniaturisation through its broad geographical scope, interdisciplinary approach, and deep understanding of miniatures and their diverse contexts.Beginning with an introduction by the editors, which offers one possible guide to studying and comparing miniatures, the following chapters include studies of miniature Neolithic stone circles on Exmoor, Ancient Egyptian miniature assemblages, miniaturisation under colonialism as practiced by the Makah People of Washington State, miniature surf boats from India, miniaturised contemporary tourist art of the Warao people of Venezuela, and dioramas on display in the Science Museum.Interspersing the chapters are interviews with miniature-makers, including two miniature boat-builders at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and a freelance architectural model-maker. Professor Susanne Küchler concludes the volume with a theoretical study summarising the current state of miniaturisation as a research discipline. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it suitable reading for anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and artists, and for researchers in related fields across the social sciences.

Material culture. --- Miniature objects. --- Miniature craft. --- Miniatures --- Handicraft --- Miniature objects --- Models and modelmaking --- Objects, Miniature --- Tiny objects --- Art objects --- Miniature craft --- Toys --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Archaeology --- Material culture --- Anthropology --- anthropology --- archaeology --- miniatures

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Dans le cadre du projet ERC AdG Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity, les recherches ont porté sur la dimension culturelle du jouet en Grèce, Étrurie et Rome antiques. Cet ouvrage pluridisciplinaire réunit vingt articles qui croisent les regards de philologues, archéologues, historiens, sémioticiens et anthropologues afin d'apporter une façon nouvelle d'envisager cet artéfact culturel dans l'Antiquité classique. Une première série de contributions portant notamment sur les sources écrites propose une analyse détaillée des contextes discursifs reliant le jouet à des termes et des expériences culturelles qui se rapportent à la sphère du plaisir et de l'émotion, mais sans définir de matérialité. La deuxième série d'articles examine les traces archéologiques d'objets ludiques, souvent très modestes, qui invitent à déconstruire une vision moderne trop étroite des jouets et du jeu réduite aux objets manufacturés par les adultes pour les enfants. Historiens, sémiologues et anthropologues enfin proposent une manière différente de penser les catégories du passé inscrites dans une longue durée faite de continuités et discontinuités.

Jouets --- Histoire --- Toys --- Games --- Amusements --- Children's paraphernalia --- Infants' supplies --- Miniature objects --- Games, Greek and Roman --- Greece --- Rome --- Antiquities.

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Science --- Models and modelmaking --- Construction (Philosophy) --- Methodology --- Congresses --- Philosophy --- Conferences - Meetings --- Model-making --- Modelling --- Modelmaking --- Handicraft --- Manual training --- Miniature objects --- Modelmaking industry --- Simulation methods --- Science - Methodology - Congresses --- Models and modelmaking - Congresses. --- Science - Philosophy - Congresses. --- Construction (Philosophy) - Congresses. --- Science - Congresses.

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Architectural practice, International. --- Architectural models. --- Lafranchi, Guy, --- Themes, motives. --- Buildings --- Models, Architectural --- Architectural casts --- Artists' preparatory studies --- Communication in architectural design --- Miniature objects --- Models and modelmaking --- International architectural practice --- Models

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Focusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small-scale during the period from 1650 to 1765. Drawing on three interconnected areas of scholarship, Melinda Alliker Rabb analyzes the human capacity to supplement direct experience of the world through representation, in order to gain knowledge of that world and to attempt control over it. Assessing two kinds of miniature - the real and the imagined - allows rethinking of works by Swift, Pope, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and others, and shows how the fictional miniature can correspond meaningfully to the world of things. The phenomenon of scaling down objects as various as teapots, bureaus, globes, buckets, spoons, battlefields, and diving bells, has a relationship to large-scale events as various as financial revolution, globalization, scientific discovery, war and other events that challenge old modes of representation and demand new ones.

English literature --- Miniature objects in literature. --- Material culture in literature. --- Literature and society --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- History