Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature) - Hardcover

Dietler, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520265513 ISBN 13: 9780520265516

Publisher: University of California Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. He shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each. "Archaeologies of Colonialism" also examines the role these ancient encounters played in the formation of modern European identity, colonial ideology, and practices, enumerating the problems for archaeologists attempting to re-examine these past societies.

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Review:

"An important and valuable addition to current studies in postcolonial theory and the colonial phenomenon in the ancient Mediterranean."--Archaeological Review (12/02/2011)

"Recommended."--Choice (06/10/2011)

"Dietler has produced an outstanding work of scholarship that is sophisticated, intelligent, and insightful, and that deserves the close attention of scholars."--Journal Of Interdisciplinary History (11/28/2011)

"Dietler's book is full of interesting . . . insights woven from a particular anthropologically driven perspective."-- (01/01/2012)

"Dazzling. . . . Dietler offers in this utterly captivating study . . . an account of a colonial entanglement like nothing you have ever read."-- (07/01/2011)

"An excellent account."--European Jrnl Of Archaeology (01/03/2013)

"Substantial and highly informative. . . . A detailed study."-- (02/07/2013)

About the Author:

Michael Dietler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Consumption and Colonial Encounters in the Rhone Basin of France.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0520265513
• ISBN 13: 9780520265516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464