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Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient
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Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Michael Dietler


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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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"Archaeologies of Colonialism contributes to a new understanding of a very large body of material. Its publication will be welcomed by historians and archaeologists who study ancient Greek and Roman colonialism, Mediterranean trade, and Iron Age Europe."--Peter S. Wells, author of The Battle that Stopped Rome

"Dietler examines colonial encounters and entanglements through a variety of lenses (consumption, violence, space), elegantly deploying the rich archaeology and history of the Western Mediterranean, an antiquity that shaped our very notions of the colonial experience. This is a book as complex and nuanced as the process it explores."--Susan E. Alcock, Brown University

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  • Title Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
  • Author Michael Dietler
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520265516 / 0520265513
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7.2 x 1.5 in (25.15 x 18.29 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Library of Congress subjects Mediterranean Region - Antiquities, France - Antiquities
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010005647
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.098

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  • Choice, 07/01/2011, Page 0

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.
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