Religion and the Making of Roman Africa : Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire / Matthew M. McCarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCarty, Matthew M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stele (Archaeology)--Africa, North.

Stele (Archaeology).

Romans--Africa, North.

Romans.

Rituals--Africa, North.

Rituals.

Africa, North--Religion.

Africa, North.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Africa, North--History--To 647.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments associated with such offerings. Earlier colonial archaeologies have stressed the failure of the empire to 'Romanize' Indigenous and Punic settler populations, mobilizing inscriptions and sculpture to mirror and explain modern European colonial failures as the result of ethnic African permanence. Instead, this book uses postcolonial theory, pragmatic semiotics, material epistemologies, and relational ontologies to develop a new account of how Roman hegemony transformed and was reproduced through signifying practices in even a seemingly traditional, 'un-Roman' rite such as child sacrifice. In doing so, the book offers a model for understanding the Roman Empire, the peoples who lived across its provinces, and their material worlds

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139096799

1139096796