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Cotsen Friday Seminar Series: Exotica and the Politics of Performance in Prepalatial Crete

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Dr. Cynthia S. Colburn, Department of Art History - Pepperdine University

What Friday Seminar
When June 01, 2012
from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Where Fowler Museum Bldg., Room A222
Contact Name Catherine Pratt
Contact Email
Contact Phone 310-825-4169
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This talk brings to the fore the critical role of exotic imports in the social and political development of late Prepalatial Crete (ca. 2500-1900 B.C.).  Specifically, it explores the ways in which Eastern imports, including raw materials, finished products, iconography, and technologies, were used, often as bodily adornment, in the creation and continued negotiation of social identities in the period preceding the first Minoan palaces.

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