Format:
1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
ISBN:
9781785706776
Content:
Frontcover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation -- Part 1 Representation reconsidered -- Chapter 2 Writing power. The material culture of literacyas representation and practice -- Chapter 3 Soldiers in life and death. Material culture,the military, and mortality -- Chapter 4 Gallo-Belgic wares. Objects in motion in the early Roman northwest -- Chapter 5 Discussion. Reflections on the representational use of artefact evidence -- Part 2 Standardisation -- Chapter 6 Standard time. Typologies in Roman antiquity -- Chapter 7 Different similarities or similar differences? Thoughts on koine, oligopoly and regionalism -- Chapter 8 Rethinking standardisation through late antique Sagalassos ceramic production.Tradition, improvisation and fluidity -- Chapter 9 Discussion. Material standards -- Part 3 Matter -- Chapter 10 Finding the material in 'material culture'. Form and matter in Roman concrete -- Chapter 11 Design, function and everyday social practice. Artefacts and Roman social history -- Chapter 12 Object ontology and cultural taxonomies. Examining the agency of style, material and objects in classification through Egyptian material culture in Pompeii and Rome -- Chapter 13 Discussion. Object-scapes. Towards amaterial constitution of Romanness? -- Part 4 Reflections -- Chapter 14 On theory-building in Roman archaeology.The potential for new approaches to materiality and practice -- Chapter 15 Roman things and Roman people. A cultural ecology of the Roman world -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785706769
Additional Edition:
Print version Van Oyen, Astrid Materialising Roman Histories Havertown : Oxbow Books,c2017 ISBN 9781785706769
Language:
English
