Post-colonialism from America to Magna Graecia

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Travailler à l'ombre du temple : activités de production et lieux de culte dans le monde antique

Quels sont les rapports entre l’atelier, le lieu de culte et leur environnement ? Trouve-t-on des ateliers dans le sanctuaire ? Juste à côté de celui-ci ? Structurellement liés à lui ou installés là de manière opportuniste ? Des ateliers permanents ou provisoires ? Ce volume collectif est une tentative de réponse à ces différentes questions. Pour ce faire, il conjugue point de vue économique et archéologie de la construction, analyse spatiale, approche technologique, examen du décor et de l’objet offert, pour recomposer une culture matérielle des lieux du religieux à partir des acteurs comme des espaces de fabrication ou de mise en œuvre.

Mobilités, contacts et colonisation dans l’antiquité grecque

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À l’aube des villes antiques : vocabulaire de la cité et formes urbaines. – Introduction

How to envisage research on the ancient city? What are the most appropriate instruments to analyse it? What are the relationships between the emergence of the city as an independent community and the urbanization as archaeology can restore it? Without claiming to resolve these difficult questions, the contributions gathered here show that urbanization and the definitions of the ancient city used by contemporary historians and archaeologists are far from being precisely determined; they can even vary according to the authors, disciplines, periods and contexts. As a consequence, there is no town, but towns; no city, but cities. The issue of a definition is also the evaluation of theories, in …

Gender, Identities, and Material Culture in the Italic Peninsula: Burial Practices and Loom Weights in Perspective

AbstractThis paper discusses the complex relationship between material culture and gender studies from a methodological point of view, with the aim of contributing to discussions in the field of Classical archaeology. First, we provide a few historiographical benchmarks for key epistemological developments, while evidencing the methodological difficulties inherent in the variability of our interpretations of burial practices and data. Then, in a second section, a case study focuses on simple objects of daily life. Discussing approaches inspired by gender studies, and considering the place of loom weights, we wish to tackle the presumption of textile work as an eminently female activity. The…

Have you said métissage or hybridization? A viewpoint from the graves

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La visibilité des classes subalternes dans les sources archéologiques. Considérations sur quelques cas d’étude en Grande Grèce

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Pottery and cultural borders in Magna Graecia and Sicily

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À l’aube des villes antiques : vocabulaire de la cité et formes urbaines

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