Materiality and social practice: transformative capacities of intercultural encounters
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader und...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Konferenzschrift Edited Volume |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Havertown
Oxbow Books
2012
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| Verfasserangaben: | ed. by Joseph Maran ... |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover; 1. Introduction ; 2. Words and things: reflections on people's interacton with the material world; 3. Magic, materials and matter: understanding different ontologies; 4. Material concerns and colonial encounters; 5. Matter of fact: transcultural contacts in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean; 6. Encountering the foreign. (De-)constructing alterity in the archaeologies of the Bronze Age Mediterranean; 7. Trade goods reproducing merchants? The materiality of Mediterranean Late Bronze Age exchange; 8. Migrant drinking assemblages in Aegean Bronze Age settings
- 9. Entangled pottery: phenomena of appropriation in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean10. Can we say, what's behind all those sherds? Ceramic innovations in the Eastern Mediterranean at the endof the second millennium; 11. Ceremonial feasting equipment, social space and interculturality in Post-Palatial Tiryns; 12. From Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece and beyond: the dissemination of ritual practices and theirmaterial correlates in ceremonial architecture; 13. The intercultural transformative capacities or irregularly appropriated goods
- 14. Lasting impressions. The appropriation of sealing practices in Minoan Crete15. Hyperculture, tradition and identity: how to communicate with seals in times of global action.A Middle Bronze Age seal impression from Kamid el-Loz; 16. The role of the Canaanite population in the Aegean migration to the Southern Levant in the latesecond Millennium BCE; 17. The practical logic of style and memory in early fi rst millennium Levantine ivories; 18. An introduction to the divine statues of, and the objects belonging to, the gods in Mesopotamiaduring the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1595 BCE)