Debating Orientalization

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Processes of Change in the Ancient Mediterranean

AvCorrina Riva,Corinna Riva

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Initially coined by art historians in the second half of the nineteenth century to denote an ambivalent artistic style and period, 'Orientalizing' has been invariably used to describe a phenomenon, a revolution, or a movement. Regional developments and innovations in the ancient Mediterranean have been explained by reference to an Orient, the metaphorical bazaar containing the artistic opulence and social sophistication that spread to the West and changed it. Debating Orietalization brings together papers presented at a symposium held in Oxford in 2002 to debate the theme of ancient Orientalization. The volume reassesses the concept of Orientalizing, questioning whether it is valid to interpret Mediterranean-wide processes of change in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages by the term Orientalization. Like the ancient Mediterranean itself, the list of contributors is multicultural, and their contributions multidisciplinary, combining various strands of archaeological and textual evidence with different methodological approaches.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-24
Mått:169 x 244 x 10 mm
Vikt:369 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Monographs In Mediterranean Archaeology
Antal sidor:179
Förlag:Equinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781845538910

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Edited by:Corinna RivaUniversity College LondonCorinna Riva is Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. The co-editor of two previous books on ancient Italy and the antique Mediterranean, she is also author of The Urbanisation of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700-600 BC (2010)Nicholas C. VellaUniversity of MaltaNicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer in Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta.

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'I highly recommend essays by Purcell, Wengrow, and Osborne, especially for those concerned with issues of cultural transformation and exchange. I also enjoyed the essays of Morris and van Dommelen. Gubel's essay caused me to reflect on how the cultures of Canaan/Israel might have contributed to and been shaped by these processes of Mediterranean interconnectivity and what impact that might have had on the religious world/s that subsequently produced the biblical and para-biblical texts.' Michael Carden, University of Queensland, The Bible and Critical Theory, Volume 4, Number 2, 2008

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Contents List of Contributors vii List of Figures ix 1 Introduction Corinna Riva and Nicholas C. Vella 1 2 Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions Nicholas Purcell 21 3 Approaching Ancient Orientalization via Modern Europe David Wengrow 31 4 Orientalization and Prehistoric Cyprus: The Social Life of Oriental Goods A. Bernard Knapp 48 5 The View from East Greece: Miletus, Samos and Ephesus Sarah P. Morris 66 6 Notes on the Phoenician Component of the Orientalizing Horizon Eric Gubel 85 7 On the Organization of the Phoenician Colonial System in Iberia Maria Eugenia Aubet 94 8 The Orientalizing Period in Etruria: Sophisticated Communities Corinna Riva 110 9 The Orientalizing Phenomenon: Hybridity and Material Culture in the Western Mediterranean Peter van Dommelen 135 10 W(h)ither Orientalization Robin Osborne 153 Index 159