Louise Steel

Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While traditional archaeologies in the East Mediterranean have tended to be reductive in their approach to material culture and how it was produced, used, and exchanged, this book reviews current research on material culture, focusing on issues such as the biography of objects, inalienable possessions, and hybridization - exploring how these issues can further illuminate the material world of the communities of the Bronze Age Mediterranean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9780415537346
• ISBN-10: 0415537347
• Artikelnr.: 35450527

Autorenporträt

Part I: Introduction 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Culture Contact Part II: Hybrid Communities 2. Colonies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean 3. Hybridization Part III: Perspectives on Bronze Age Exchange 4. Greeting Gifts 5. Mercantile Exchange Part IV: The Material World 6. Craft and the Kingly Ideal 7. Materiality and the Biography of Objects Part V: Concluding Remarks

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Connected Worlds 2. Colonies in the Bronze Age
Mediterranean 3. Entangled Worlds: Hybridization and an International Style
4. Greeting Gifts and Competitive Gift Exchange 5. Commodities, Luxuries
and the Creation of Desire 6. Technologies of Enchantment 7. Materiality
and the Biography of Objects 8. Conclusions