Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World

Informationen zum Autor Shelley Hales is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol. She is the author of Roman Houses and Social Identity and is co-editor, with Joanna Paul, of Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery to Today. Tamar Hodos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Author of Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean, she co-directs the Caltilar (Lycia) project and serves on the editorial board of Anatolian Studies. Klappentext Considers how various aspects of material culture can be used to explore complex global and local identity structures in antiquity. Zusammenfassung In a series of case studies! an international team of archaeologists and art historians considers how various aspects of material culture can be used to explore complex global and local identity structures across the geographical and chronological span of antiquity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....

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• Authors: Shelley (University of Bristol) Hodos Hales, Shelley Hodos Hales
• Assisted by: Shelley Hales (Editor), Hales Shelley (Editor), Tamar Hodos (Editor), Hodos Tamar (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521767743
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76774-3
• No. of pages: 358
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Globalization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory