| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology monograph series ; 3 |
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University of Cambridge museum of classical archaeology monograph ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation / Astrid Van Oyen and Martin Pitts -- Writing power: the material culture of literacy as representation and practice / Hella Eckardt -- Soldiers in life and death. Material culture, the military, and mortality / Rob Collins -- Gallo-Belgic wares. Objects in motion in the early Roman northwest / Martin Pitts -- Discussion. Reflections on the representational use of artefact evidence / Martin Millett -- Standard time. Typologies in Roman antiquity / Alicia Jiménez -- Different similarities or similar differences? Thoughts on koine, oligopoly and regionalism / Jeroen Poblome, Senem Ozden Gerçeker and Maarten Loopmans -- Rethinking standardisation through late antique Sagalassos ceramic production. Tradition, improvisation and fluidity / Elizabeth A. Murphy -- Discussion. Material standards / Robin Osborne -- Finding the material in 'material culture'. Form and matter in Roman concrete / Astrid Van Oyen -- Design, function and everyday social practice. Artefacts and Roman social history / Ellen Swift -- Object ontology and cultural taxonomies. Examining the agency of style, material and objects in classification through Egyptian material culture in Pompeii and Rome / Eva Mol -- Discussion. Object-scapes. Towards a material constitution of Romanness? / Miguel John Versluys -- On theory-building in Roman archaeology. The potential for new approaches to materiality and practice / Andrew Gardner -- Roman things and Roman people. A cultural ecology of the Roman world / Greg Woolf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Material culture -- Rome
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Antiquities
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Historiography
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Material culture
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Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115088
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Rome -- Historiography
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Rome -- History -- Philosophy
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Van Oyen, Astrid, editor
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Pitts, Martin, editor
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| LC no. |
2017037954 |
| ISBN |
9781785706776 |
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1785706772 |
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9781785706790 |
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1785706799 |
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