Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy: Approaching Social Agents

ISBN 10: 1785701843 / ISBN 13: 9781785701849

Edité par Oxbow Books Limited, 2016

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• Titre: Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy: Approaching Social Agents
• Éditeur: Oxbow Books Limited
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1785701843
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781785701849
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
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• Poids: 2,02 livres

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In the first millennium BC, communities in Italy underwent crucial transformations which scholars have often subsumed under the heading of 'state formation', namely increased social stratification, the centralisation of political power and, in some cases, urbanisation. Most research has tended to approach the phenomenon of state formation and social change in relation to specific territorial dynamics of growth and expansion, changing modes of exploitation of food and other resources over time, and the adoption of selected socio-ritual practices by the ruling élites in order to construct and negotiate authority. In contrast, comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of how these key developments resonated across the broader social transect, and how social groups other than ruling élites both promoted these changes and experienced their effects. The chief aim of this collection of 14 papers is to harness innovative approaches to the exceptionally rich mortuary evidence of first millennium BC Italy, in order to investigate the roles and identities of social actors who either struggled for power and social recognition, or were manipulated and exploited by superior authorities in a phase of tumultuous socio-political change throughout the entire Mediterranean basin. Contributors provide a diverse range of approaches in order to examijne how power operated in society, how it was exercised and resisted, and how this can be studied through mortuary evidence.

Section 1 addresses the construction of identity by focusing mainly on the manipulation of age, ethnic and gender categories in society in regions and sites that reached notable power and splendour in first millennium BC Italy. These include Etruria, Latium, Campania and the rich settlement of Verucchio, in Emilia Romagna.

Section 2 offers a counterpoint to Section 1 by focusing on the concepts of 'periphery', marginality and the frailty of élite (or sub-élite) power in phases of dramatic socio-political change. Moreover, this Section approaches the idea of identity construction in 'fringe' geographical areas that are sometimes overlooked in Anglophone scholarship, such as the Veneto, Samnium, western Emilia and Trentino-South Tyrol. With its overall emphasis on scholarly multivocality, this volume is one of the first ever to strongly advocate for a study of social exclusion and extreme social marginality in late prehistoric and proto-historic Italy.

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Elisa Perego is an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where she completed her PhD in 2012. Her research interests focus on social marginality and social change in the ancient Mediterranean. Rafael Scopacasa teaches Ancient History at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where he got his PhD in 2010. His research interests focus on bringing together historical, epigraphic and archaeological evidence as a means of constructing alternative histories, especially of pre-Imperial Italy.