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Full Contributors: Susan E. Alcock, Jean Andreau, Paul Carledge, Edward E. Cohen, John K. Davies, Lin Foxhall, Edward M. Harris, Michael H. Jameson, Julie Velissaropoulos-Karakostas, H. S. Kim, Dimitris J. Kyrtatas, Ian Morris, Sitta von Reden and Walter Scheidel
Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring
and explaining social, economic and political relationships and
connections in past societies. However, in archaeology, the
deployment of networks has sometimes been more descriptive than
analytical. Methodologies have often depended upon underlying
assumptions which inevitably simplify relationships that were
complex and multi-faceted. However, the fragmentary, heterogenous
and usually proxy data we possess are not always amenable to
reconstructing that complexity. In ancient societies, we must infer
the movement of knowledge about 'how to make things' largely from
objects themselves. This is because we usually lack direct evidence
of the human relationships that entwined people with objects and
their makers, and hence have only imperfect understanding of the
full range of diverse factors that shaped the relationships that
constituted these networks. The chapters in this volume aim to
interrogate the interpretative potential of network concepts for
understanding the movement over time and space of ideas about
making, using and moving things through a range of archaeological
case studies, which reveal both functional and dysfunctional
relationships. The purpose is to consider how more broadly
contextualised and multi-faceted studies can both enhance, and be
enhanced by, network and related approaches. The volume contributes
to the search for greater understanding of the movement and
transmission of knowledge (or in some cases their absence), and to
debates about how best to expand the utility of network concepts
and approaches.
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on
materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the
Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material
objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks
of various forms - which are central to explanations of cultural
contact and change. Focusing on the materiality of objects and on
the way in which materials are used adds a multidimensional quality
to networks. The properties, functions, and styles of different
materials are intrinsically linked to the way in which knowledge
flows and technologies are transmitted. Transmission of
technologies from one craft to another is one of the main drivers
of innovation, whilst sharing knowledge is enabled and limited by
the extent of associated social networks in place. Archaeological
research has often been limited to studying objects made of one
particular material in depth, be it lithic materials, ceramics,
textiles, glass, metal, wood or others. The knowledge flow and
transfer between crafts that deal with different materials have
often been overlooked. This book takes a fresh approach to the
reconstruction of knowledge networks by integrating two or more
craft traditions in each of its chapters. The authors, well-known
experts and early career researchers, provide concise case studies
that cover a wide range of materials. The scope of the book extends
from networks of craft traditions to implications for society in a
wider sense: materials, objects, and the technologies used to make
and distribute them are interwoven with social meaning. People make
objects, but objects make people - the materiality of objects
shapes our understanding of the world and our place within it. In
this book, objects are treated as clues to social networks of
different sorts that can be contrasted and compared, both spatially
and diachronically.
This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on
materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric Europe and the
Classical Mediterranean. It emphasises the significance of material
objects to the construction, maintenance, and collapse of networks
of various forms - which are central to explanations of cultural
contact and change. Focusing on the materiality of objects and on
the way in which materials are used adds a multidimensional quality
to networks. The properties, functions, and styles of different
materials are intrinsically linked to the way in which knowledge
flows and technologies are transmitted. Transmission of
technologies from one craft to another is one of the main drivers
of innovation, whilst sharing knowledge is enabled and limited by
the extent of associated social networks in place. Archaeological
research has often been limited to studying objects made of one
particular material in depth, be it lithic materials, ceramics,
textiles, glass, metal, wood or others. The knowledge flow and
transfer between crafts that deal with different materials have
often been overlooked. This book takes a fresh approach to the
reconstruction of knowledge networks by integrating two or more
craft traditions in each of its chapters. The authors, well-known
experts and early career researchers, provide concise case studies
that cover a wide range of materials. The scope of the book extends
from networks of craft traditions to implications for society in a
wider sense: materials, objects, and the technologies used to make
and distribute them are interwoven with social meaning. People make
objects, but objects make people - the materiality of objects
shapes our understanding of the world and our place within it. In
this book, objects are treated as clues to social networks of
different sorts that can be contrasted and compared, both spatially
and diachronically.
Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the
classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from
the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients
tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is
the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as
presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific
thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical
antiquity and beyond. This beautifully illustrated volume, which
contains a preface by Nathalie Kampen, provides a thought-provoking
and stimulating insight into the representations of men in
Classical culture.
'This book contains a wealth of different opinions and arguments which sum up present thoughts in the field of gender studies very well.' - JACT Review
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its
material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological
evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and
methodological approaches have been used to interpret this
evidence, and conflicts continue to rage as these different
starting points produce clashing views on the significance and
distribution of money, labour and land. Money, Labour and Land
reflects the current explosion in ideas and research by assembling
case-studies from an international selection of renowned US,
British and European scholars. Drawing on comparative historical
and anthropological approaches, sociological, economic and cultural
theory, and developments in epigraphy, legal history, numismatics
and spatial archaeology, this volume will be of interest to all
students and scholars of ancient economies.
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's
history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring
the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine
story. With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs
different methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source
materials, periods and places.
This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped
people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient
Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other
socio-political characteristics such as wealth, status, age and
life-stage as well as with individual choices, in the very
different world of classical antiquity, is fascinating in its own
right. But later perceptions of ancient literature and art have
profoundly influenced the development of gendered ideologies and
hierarchies in the West, and influenced the study of gender itself.
Questioning how best to untangle and interpret difficult sources is
a key aim. This book exploits a wide range of archaeological,
material cultural, visual, spatial, demographic, epigraphical and
literary evidence to consider households, families, life-cycles and
the engendering of time, legal and political institutions, beliefs
about bodies, sex and sexuality, gender and space, the economic
implications of engendered practices, and gender in religion and
magic.
Few historical epochs have influenced the development of
civilization to the extent that those of ancient Greece and Rome
have. This Guide, with over 1700 entries and 500 illustrations, is
a key reference work on both, covering all the main branches of
ancient literature, art and institutions. In addition, it explores
traditionally neglected areas such as dress, housing, minority
groups and social relations. Ranging from post-Bronze Age Greece to
the later Roman Empire, it surveys not only ancient Greece and
Rome, but discusses those cultures with which Greeks and Romans
exchanged information and culture (e.g., Phoenicians, Celts and
Jews) as well as the remote peoples with whom they were in contact
(e.g., Persia, China and India). Graham Shipley is a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London, and chair of the Council of
University Classical Departments as well as the Sparta and Laconia
Committee of the British School of Athens. His publications include
A History of Samos and The Greek World after Alexander. John
Vanderspoel is Professor of Late Antiquity at the University of
Calgary, where he was initially appointed in 1985. His publications
include Themistius and the Imperial Court (1995) and numerous
journal articles and chapters on Roman history, intellectual and
religious developments in the Roman imperial period and Roman
Britain. David Mattingly is a Fellow of the British Academy and
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His publications
include monographs on Tripolitania (1995) and An Atlas of Roman
Britain (2002); edited volumes including Economies beyond
Agriculture in the Classical World (2001), Life, Death and
Entertainment in the Roman World (1999), and Dialogues in Roman
Imperialism (supplement to Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1997). Lin
Foxhall is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her
publications include co-edited volumes on masculinity in the
ancient world (Thinking Men and When Men were Men 1998), on ancient
law (Greek Law in its Political Setting 1996), and the ancient
economy (Money, Labour and Land 2002) as well as many journal
articles and chapters on Greek social relations, gender,
agriculture, field survey and economy.
'An ideal companion to Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-representation in the Classical Tradition.' - Oxon Book Review
'This book certainly deserves to be in college libraries as an important resource for the growing study of ancient social relations.' -The Anglo-Hellenic Review
This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped
people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient
Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other
socio-political characteristics such as wealth, status, age and
life-stage, as well as with individual choices, in the very
different world of classical antiquity is fascinating in its own
right. But later perceptions of ancient literature and art have
profoundly influenced the development of gendered ideologies and
hierarchies in the West, and influenced the study of gender itself.
Questioning how best to untangle and interpret difficult sources is
a key aim. This book exploits a wide range of archaeological,
material cultural, visual, spatial, demographic, epigraphical and
literary evidence to consider households, families, life-cycles and
the engendering of time, legal and political institutions, beliefs
about bodies, sex and sexuality, gender and space, the economic
implications of engendered practices, and gender in religion and
magic.
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