| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 179 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) |
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)
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| Contents |
Foreword / Colin Renfrew -- Introduction / Nigel Spencer -- 1. Approaches to ethnicity in the Early Iron Age of Greece / Jonathan M. Hall -- 2. Challenging preconceptions of Oriental 'barbarity' and Greek 'humanity': human sacrifice in the ancient world / Louise Steel -- 3. Multi-dimensional group definition in the landscape of rural Greece / Nigel Spencer -- 4. Tomb cult and hero cult: the uses of the past in Archaic Greece / James Whitley -- 5. Present-day Chora on Amorgos and prehistoric Thermi on Lesbos: alternative views of communities in transition / Kyriacos Lambrianides -- 6. The organisation of space in Classical and Hellenistic houses from mainland Greece and the western colonies / Lisa Nevett -- 7. Dead women's society: constructing female gender in Classical Athenian funerary sculpture / Karen Stears -- 8. Monumental ambitions: the significance of posterity in Greece / Lin Foxhall |
| Summary |
Over the last century the study of classical archaeology has tended to be very traditional. By examining it in the light of current theoretical archaeology and anthropology, the discipline is made more valuable to the study of archaeology in the 1990s |
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Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wide-ranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework the book considers many of the issues which have become important in the study of archaeology in recent years - time, the 'past', gender, ideology, social structure and group identitycovering such diverse topics as ethnicity, the rural landscape, hero cult, funerary architecture and classical art. A collection of such varied and topical papers will be of value to classicists, ancient historians, anthropologists and everyone interested in new approaches to archaeology |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a session of the annual conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held in Southampton, England, in 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-171) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology and history -- Greece -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology and history
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Manners and customs
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Archeologische vondsten.
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Maatschappij.
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Griekse oudheid.
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Archéologie et histoire -- Grèce -- Congrès.
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Archéologie -- Philosophie -- Congrès.
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Archéologie -- Méthodologie -- Congrès.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Greece -- Social life and customs -- Congresses
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Greece
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Grèce -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Grèce -- Archéologie -- Congrès.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spencer, Nigel, 1967-
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (England)
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| ISBN |
9781134683901 |
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1134683901 |
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9780203759349 |
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0203759346 |
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9781134684045 |
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1134684045 |
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9781134683970 |
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1134683979 |
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9780415513463 |
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0415513464 |
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