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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dommelen, Peter Alexander René van, 1966-

Knapp, Arthur Bernard

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Migration, Internal.

Group identity.

Material culture.

Iron age.

Bronze age.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Civilization.

Bronze age--Mediterranean Region.

Iron age--Mediterranean Region.

Material culture--Mediterranean Region.

Group identity--Mediterranean Region.

Migration, Internal--Mediterranean Region.

Commerce, Prehistoric--Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Summary:

Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean explores the social identity of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples through the combined lenses of materiality, migration, colonial encounters, hybridisation and connectivity or insularity. Whereas Mediterranean archaeology has traditionally focused on excavating major sites, isolating cultural 'firsts' and describing fine artworks, the main resource of this collection is the material culture of everyday life: this allows the authors to look well beyond the rather narrow lens of archival, epigraphic and literary written evidence.

The volume moves beyond established approaches and engages actively with the interrelated issues of colonialism, material culture and identity on a comparative basis. The authors explore in particular how 'things' mediate the experience of ancient Mediterranean peoples, and how these relations are shaped and informed by long-term collective memories of movement, colonization or localization. By analysing concepts like migration, materiality, identity and connectivity, the authors breathe new life into theoretical and methodological approaches, and foster new dialogues and understandings of trans-regional and trans-cultural practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Material connections : mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities / A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen

Classifying an oxymoron. on black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean / Carlos Cañete

Reproducing difference : mimesis and colonialism in Roman hispania / Alicia Jimnez

From colonisation to habitation : early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze age / Dami Ramis

Social identities, materiality and connectivity in early Bronze Age Crete / Marina Gkiasta

Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in late Bronze Age / Sardinia Anthony Russell

Negotiating island interactions : Cyprus, the Aegean and the levant in the late Bronze-early iron ages / Sarah Janes

Entangled identities on Iron age Sardinia? / Jeremy Hayne

Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron age to classical Mediterranean / Maria Kostoglou

Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron age East Iberia : on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement / Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz

Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the North Tyrrhenian Sea Region / Corinna Riva

Concluding thoughts / Michael Rowlands.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415586689

0415586682

9780415586696

0415586690

OCLC:

606234702

Publisher Number:

99939722927