Funerary archaeology and changing identities : community practices in Roman-period Sardinia /
Three main research questions intertwine in this volume. These are, first, the theoretical issue of how we can infer identities from archaeology. Second, what is the material relationship between Sardinia's communities and the Roman world's power and culture when looking at the burial evid...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,
[2019]
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| Series: | Archaeopress Roman archaeology ;
55. |
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| Summary: | Three main research questions intertwine in this volume. These are, first, the theoretical issue of how we can infer identities from archaeology. Second, what is the material relationship between Sardinia's communities and the Roman world's power and culture when looking at the burial evidence on the ground. Third, how our interpretive frameworks of today's world and symbolic structure can affect our understanding of the past. This book attempts to answer these three questions by analyzing in detail the funerary evidence from mostly unpublished burial sites from southern and central Sardinia that can become key to an alternative interpretation of the island and of other Roman Provinces. The questions are answered throughout the book by drawing on social studies, particularly postcolonial approaches to the history of the past, interpretive frameworks on the Roman world and semiotic theories. By looking in-depth at the archaeological evidence from Sardinia's burials, this book retrieves the active and creative role played by the local communities in shaping back the Roman world within the specific material and historical conditions they lived in. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 180 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-147). |
| ISBN: | 9781789690002 1789690005 |