Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the 'Great Divide'

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Nigel Spencer
Routledge, 15 abr 2013 - 200 páginas
Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wideranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework Spencer examines 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 identity. The papers in this collection cover such diverse topics as the rural landscape, classical art and scientific methodologies.
Over the last century the study of classical archaeology has been orthodox and static. The essays in this collection examine it in the light of current theoretical archaeology and anthropology, making it more relevant and valuable to the study of archaeology in the 1990s. This is a diverse and topical collection, of great value to classicists, ancient historians, anthropologists and everyone interested in new approaches to archaeology.
 

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List of illustrations
1972
Note on transliteration
1979
Approaches to ethnicity in the Early Iron Age of Greece
1985
Challenging Preconceptions of Oriental barbarity and Greek humanity
Multidimensional group definition in the Landscape of rural Greece
Tomb cult and hero cult The uses of the past in Archaic Greece
PresentDay Chora on Amorgos and prehistoric Thermi on Lesbo Alternative
The organisation of space in Classical and Hellenistic houses from mainland
Dead womens society Constructing female gender in Classical Athenian
Monumental ambitions The significance of posterity in Greece
Bibliography
Index
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