Consumerism in the Ancient World: Imports and Identity Construction

ISBN-13: 9780367866457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 218 str.

Justin St P. Walsh

Opis

This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided to acquire them. This new approach includes discussion of the ways in which objects take on differe

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Greek Pottery in New Contexts  2. Greek Colonization in the West: A Historical and Cultural Survey  3. Comparison of Significant Sites  4. Developing a Theoretical Basis for Understanding Consumption  5. Greek Pottery at Home and in the West  6. Analysis of the Dataset  7. Interpreting the Evidence: Consumerism, Signaling, and Identity

O autorze

Justin St. P. Walsh is Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Chapman University. He has worked for more than a decade at archaeological sites across the Mediterranean, especially Morgantina in Sicily, and has been the recipient of a Rome Prize, a Fulbright Grant to Greece, and numerous other awards. He is the author of several articles on Greek pottery, cross-cultural interactions, and the protection of cultural heritage.