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Worlds in Miniature brings together researchers working across different regions, time periods and disciplines to explore the subject of miniaturisation as a material culture technique.

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Miniature objects --- Tribology --- Friction --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Miniatures --- Objects, Miniature --- Tiny objects --- Art objects --- Miniature craft --- Toys

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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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Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.

Miniature objects. --- Material culture --- Social aspects. --- Miniatures --- Objects, Miniature --- Tiny objects --- Art objects --- Miniature craft --- Toys --- Miniature objects