Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009743821 ISBN 13 : 9781009743822

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative nature of this period and region, our focus is firmly on the western Mediterranean during the first half of the first millennium BCE. Discussions of the local places and local communities of the Iron Age West Mediterranean are wrapped around the twin notions of agency and locality. We argue that everyday local agency produces locality in an ongoing dialectic, ranging from collaboration to struggle, with globalizing influences and colonial forces. The eighteen West Mediterranean case studies are organized around the themes of 'Indigeneity and locality', 'agency and empowerment' and 'practice and production'.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Erich Kistler is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and directs the long-term Monte Iato Project. He has led several third-party-funded projects and co-edited Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015). His work contributes to debates on materiality, colonial entanglements, and local agency in the pre-Roman Mediterranean.

Christian Heitz is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck. His research spans the Aegean Bronze Age to Imperial Rome, with a current focus on pre- and early Roman southern Italy. He specializes in social structures, gender, iconography, and material culture, and directs excavations at Ascoli Satriano.

Birgit Öhlinger is a Mediterranean archaeologist whose research focuses on material culture, cultural interactions and entanglements, local agency and identity in pre-Roman Sicily. She is Senior Scientist at the University of Innsbruck and Co-Director of the long-term excavation project at Monte Iato. She co-edited the volume Sanctuaries and the Power of Consumption (2015).

Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a Mediterranean archaeologist studying cultural interactions, Indigeneity and colonialism in the Iron Age and Phoenician-Punic West Mediterranean. His research concerns migration, rural landscapes, and ancient agriculture, which structure long-term fieldwork and ceramic studies on Sardinia. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Mediterranean World book series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009743821
• ISBN 13: 9781009743822
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 504
• Éditeur: Kistler Erich, Heitz Christian, Öhlinger Birgit, Van Dommelen Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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