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

by Spencer,Nigel; Spencer,Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780415114127
• ISBN10: 0415114128
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeologyis an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to Classical archaeology. It offers a wide ranging overview of Classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from Mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework it 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 funerary architecture, Classical art and scientific methodologies. Over the last century the study of classical archaeology has tended to be very traditional. By examining it in the light of current theoretical archaeology and anthropology, classical archaeology is made more relevant and valuable to the study of archaeology in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Colin Renfrew Introduction Nigel Spencer Approaches to ethnicity in early Iron Age of Greece Jonathan M.

Hall Challenging preconceptions of Oriental 'barbarity' and Greek 'humanity': human sacrifice in the ancient world Louise

Steel Multi-dimensional group definition in the landscape of rural Greece

Nigel Spencer Tomb cult and hero cult: the uses of the past in Archaic Greece

James Whitley Present-day Chora on Amorgos and prehistoric

Thermi, Lesbos: alternative views of comunities in transition - Kyriakos Lambrianidis

The organisation of space in Classical and Hellenistic houses from mainland

Greece and the western colonies Lisa

Nevett Dead women's society: constructing female gender in Classical

Athenian funerary sculpture Karen Stears

Monuments and monumentality: the archaeological impact of Greek constructions of time Lin Foxhall

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