Archaeologies of Colonialism - Consumption, Entanglement, Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France

Zusatztext "Substantial and highly informative. . . . A detailed study." Informationen zum Autor Michael Dietler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Consumption and Colonial Encounters in the Rhone Basin of France . Klappentext " Archaeologies of Colonialism contributes to a new understanding of a very large body of material. Its publication will be welcomed by historians and archaeologists who study ancient Greek and Roman colonialism! Mediterranean trade! and Iron Age Europe."-Peter S. Wells! author of The Battle that Stopped Rome "Dietler examines colonial encounters and entanglements through a variety of lenses (consumption! violence! space)! elegantly deploying the rich archaeology and history of the Western Mediterranean! an antiquity that shaped our very notions of the colonial experience. This is a book as complex and nuanced as the process it explores."-Susan E. Alcock! Brown University Zusammenfassung Presents a theoretically informed study of interactions between indigenous people of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. This book shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dietler, Dietler Michael
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2010
• EAN: 9780520265516
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26551-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, France, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Ancient World, Relating to indigenous peoples, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology