Religion and the Making of Roman Africa - Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire

The first English-language account of religious change in Roman North Africa, challenging 150 years of colonial scholarship and offering new paths forward for studying and decolonizing the archaeology and history of Roman provinces.

List of contents

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. Colonial Histories: 1. Colonial traditions; 2. Historicizing stelae and sanctuaries; Part II. Themes in the Making of Hegemony: 3. Making Africa with Punic signs; 4. Making a God; 5. Making sanctuary communities; 6. Making children subjects of empire; 7. Making offerings; 8. Remaking spaces and societies; 9. Making empire: signs, stelae, and traditions; Appendix 1. Dating stele-sanctuaries; Appendix 2. Concordance of ancient/modern place names; References; Index.

About the author

Matthew M. McCarty is Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. He has directed the Apulum Roman Villa Project and the Apulum Mithraeum III Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for which he won the Mary White Prize from the Classical Association of Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew M McCarty, Matthew M. McCarty, Matthew M. (University of British Columbi Mccarty
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2024
• EAN: 9781107020184
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02018-4
• No. of pages: 482
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, Colonialism & imperialism, Relating to indigenous peoples, Ancient Rome, Colonialism and imperialism, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, North Africa, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, c 1 to c 500 CE, Roman religion and mythology, Roman religion & mythology, Roman history; Roman art; Roman archaeology