2/13/2005

surreality - Barbie dolls in Minoan Crete

Filed under: — Michael Shanks @ 10:04 pm

Stringy Carter has put me on to an extraordinary web site - Minoan Culture, a Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio

Barbie as prehistoric matriarch

He has created a series of scenes from his reading of Minoan Crete using Barbie dolls …

not the usual gendered interpretation of Minoan culture and society!

But I suspect this has a lot in common with the way excavator Sir Arthur Evans thought of bronze age Crete.

Have a look at our rumagings through the site of Knossos [Link] and [Link]

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