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Title Materialising Roman histories / edited by Astrid Van Oyen and Martin Pitts.

Publication Info. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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©2017

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology monograph series ; 3
University of Cambridge museum of classical archaeology monograph ; no. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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Subject Rome -- Antiquities.
Rome (Empire)
Antiquities.
Material culture -- Rome.
Rome -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Rome -- History -- Philosophy.
History.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Van Oyen, Astrid, editor.
Pitts, Martin, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Materialising Roman histories. Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2017 9781785706769 (DLC) 2017023516 (OCoLC)973086114
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