Justin St. P. Walsh

Consumerism in the Ancient World (eBook, ePUB)

Imports and Identity Construction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 different meanings in new contexts, the linkages between the consumption of goods and identity construction, and the utility of objects for signaling positive information about their owners to their community. The study includes a database of almost 24,000 artifacts from more than 230 sites in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The new approaches explored in this book mark a movement away from reliance on fragments of ancient authors' descriptions of western Europe, remains of monumental buildings, and major artworks in order to investigate ancient Greek social life and more 'ordinary' forms of material culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317812838
• Artikelnr.: 40107754

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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