Material connections in the ancient Mediterranean : mobility, materiality, and Mediterranean identities / / edited by Peter van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.09822
• Soggetto topico: Bronze age - Mediterranean Region; Iron age - Mediterranean Region; Material culture - Mediterranean Region; Group identity - Mediterranean Region; Migration, Internal - Mediterranean Region; Commerce, Prehistoric - Mediterranean Region
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region Civilization
• Altri autori: DommelenPeter Alexander Rene van <1966-> KnappArthur Bernard
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 MATERIAL CONNECTIONS: Mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities; 2 CLASSIFYING AN OXYMORON: On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean; 3 REPRODUCING DIFFERENCE: Mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania; 4 FROM COLONISATION TO HABITATION: Early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age; 5 SOCIAL IDENTITIES, MATERIALITY AND CONNECTIVITY IN EARLY BRONZE AGE CRETE ; 6 FOREIGN MATERIALS, ISLANDER MOBILITY AND ELITE IDENTITY IN LATE BRONZE AGE SARDINIA7 NEGOTIATING ISLAND INTERACTIONS: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages; 8 ENTANGLED IDENTITIES ON IRON AGE SARDINIA?; 9 IRON, CONNECTIVITY AND LOCAL IDENTITIES IN THE IRON AGE TO CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN; 10 MOBILITY, MATERIALITY AND IDENTITIES IN IRON AGE EAST IBERIA: On the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement; 11 TRADING SETTLEMENTS AND THE MATERIALITY OF WINE CONSUMPTION IN THE NORTH TYRRHENIAN SEA REGION; 12 CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Material Connections eschews outdated theory, tainted by colonialist attitudes, and develops a new cultural and historical understanding of how factors such as mobility, materiality, conflict and co-presence impacted on the formation of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Fighting against 'hyper-specialisation' within the subject area, it explores the multiple ways that material culture was used to establish, maintain and alter identities, especially during periods of transition, culture encounter and change. A new perspective is adopted, one that perceives the use of material c
• Titolo autorizzato: Material connections in the ancient Mediterranean
• ISBN: 1-136-90345-3; 1-136-90346-1; 1-282-88235-X; 9786612882357; 0-203-84211-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785244103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II