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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Archaeology |
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Routledge studies in archaeology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Connected Worlds; 2 Colonies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean; 3 Entangled Worlds: Hybridization and an International Style; 4 Greeting Gifts and Competitive Gift Exchange; 5 Commodities, Luxuries and the Creation of Desire; 6 Technologies of Enchantment; 7 Materiality and the Biography of Objects; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic significance, particularly to the cultures of the Aegean. Despite sophisticated discussion of the archaeological evidence, in particular on the part of Aegean and Mediterranean archaeologists, there has been little systematic attempt to incorporate anthropological perspectives on materiality and exchange i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bronze age -- Mediterranean Region
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Consumption (Economics) -- Mediterranean Region -- History
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Bronze age
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Consumption (Economics)
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Forntiden.
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Bronsåldern.
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Näringsliv.
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Metallslöjd.
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Materiell kultur.
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Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005633
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136274824 |
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1136274820 |
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