Materiality and social practice : transformative capacities of intercultural encounters / edited by Joseph Maran and Philipp W. Stockhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maran, Joseph.

Stockhammer, Philipp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Mediterranean Region.

Bronze age.

Commerce, Prehistoric--Mediterranean Region.

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Material culture--Mediterranean Region.

Material culture.

Ceremonial objects--Mediterranean Region.

Ceremonial objects.

Social archaeology--Mediterranean Region.

Social archaeology.

Mediterranean Region--Relations.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology's approach towards items coming from the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructing systems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology has for a long time reduced

Contents:

Introduction / J. Maran and P. W. Stockhammer

Words and things: reflections on people's interacton [sic] with the material world / H. P. Hahn

Magic, materials and matter: understanding different ontologies / C. Gosden

Material concerns and colonial encounters / P. van Dommelen and M. Rowlands

Matter of fact: transcultural contacts in the late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean / A. B. Knapp

Encountering the foreign. (De-)constructing alterity in the archaeologies of the Bronze Age Mediterranean / D. Panagiotopoulos

Trade goods reproducing merchants? The materiality of Mediterranean late Bronze Age exchange / G. J. van Wijngaarden

Migrant drinking assemblages in Aegean Bronze Age settings / J. B. Rutter

Entangled pottery: phenomena of appropriation in the late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean / P. W. Stockhammer

Can we say, what's behind all those sherds? Ceramic innovations in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the second millennium / R. Jung

Ceremonial feasting equipment, social space and interculturality in post-palatial Tiryns / J. Maran

From Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece and beyond: the dissemination of ritual practices and their material correlates in ceremonial architecture / E. Borgna

The intercultural transformative capacities or irregularly appropriated goods / S. Sherratt

Lasting impressions. The appropriation of sealing practices in Minoan Crete / S. Cappel

Hyperculture, tradition and identity: how to communicate with seals in times of global action. A middle Bronze Age seal impression from Kamid el-Loz / M. Heinz and J. Linke

The role of the Canaanite population in the Aegean migration to the Southern Levant in the late second millennium BCE / A. Yasur-Landau

The practical logic of style and memory in early first millennium Levantine ivories / M. H. Feldman

An introduction to the divine statues of, and the objects belonging to, the gods in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1595 BCE) / M. Maggio.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842179093

1842179098

9781842179116

184217911X

OCLC:

829461122