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Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Paperback)
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Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has
long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international
research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant
continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact
and its social and economic significance, particularly to the
cultures of the Aegean. Despite sophisticated discussion of the
archaeological evidence, in particular on the part of Aegean and
Mediterranean archaeologists, there has been little systematic
attempt to incorporate anthropological perspectives on materiality
and exchange into archaeological narratives of this material. This
book addresses that gap and integrates anthropological discourse on
contact, examining exchange systems, the gift, notions of
geographical distance and power, colonization, and hybridization.
Furthermore, it develops a social narrative of culture contact in
the Mediterranean context, illustrating the reasons communities
chose to engage in international exchange, and how this impacted
the construction of identities throughout the region. 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.
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