Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World

Herausgeber: Hales, Shelley; Hodos, Tamar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considers how various aspects of material culture can be used to explore complex global and local identity structures in antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767743
• ISBN-10: 0521767741
• Artikelnr.: 26527536

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theoretical Frameworks: 1. Local and global perspectives in the
study of social and cultural identities Tamar Hodos; 2. (Re)defining
ethnicity: culture, material culture, and identity Carla M. Antonaccio; 3.
Cultural diversity and unity: empire and Rome Richard Hingley; Part II.
Case Studies: 4. Ingenious inventions: welding ethnicities east and west
Corinna Riva; 5. Shaping Mediterranean economy and trade: Phoenician
cultural identities in the Iron Age Michael Sommer; 6. Samothrace: Samo- or
Thrace? Petya Ilieva; 7. The big and beautiful women of Asia: ethnic
conceptions of ideal beauty in Achaemenid-period seals and gemstones Lloyd
Llewellyn-Jones; 8. Unintentionally being Lucanian: dynamics beyond
hybridity Elena Isayev; 9. Tricks with mirrors: remembering the dead of
Noricum Shelley Hales; 10. Neutral bodies? Female portrait statue types
from the Late Republic into the 2nd century CE Annetta Alexandridis; Part
III. Afterword: 11. Cultural crossovers: global and local identities in the
classical world David Mattingly.