Learning to consume: consumption and consumerism in the Roman Empire

Greene, Kevin

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“…112. Naerebout (2006/7); Greene (2008). The observations and remarks on globalisation as an anachronistic concept for the Roman world in also fall within this category.…”

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Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Isayev¹

2014

Globalisation and the Roman World

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World history, connectivity and material cultureThis book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas, and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life. Based on these criteria, there is a case for globalisation in the ancient Roman world. Essential for anyone interested in Romanisation, this volume provides the first sustained critical exploration of globalisation theories in Roman archaeology and history. It is written by an international group of scholars who address a broad range of subjects, including Roman imperialism, economics, consumption, urbanism, migration, visual culture and heritage. The contributors explore the implications of understanding material culture in an interconnected Roman world, highlighting several novel directions for future research.Martin Pitts is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Specialising in the quantitative analysis of consumption patterns, his research addresses the origins of mass consumption and the role of artefacts in large-scale historical processes and how such processes impacted on local cultural practices. Although his focus is on the northwestern Roman Empire, he has also published on consumption in the seventeenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries. He is co-author, with Dominic Perring, of Alien Cities: Consumption and the Origins of Urbanism in Roman Britain. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the European Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Britannia and the Journal of WorldSystems Research. Miguel John Versluys is Associate Professor of Classical and MediterraneanArchaeology at the University of Leiden. In 2010, he obtained a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to build his own research group, Cultural Innovation in a Globalising Society: Egypt in the Roman World. In 2011, he was a guest professor at Université de Toulouse II -Le Mirail. In 2013, he received the Zenobia Essay Prize. His main research interest is cultural interaction in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean. He has published many articles in international journals and is the author of several books, including Egyptian Gods in the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean: Image and Reality Between Local and Global (2012).C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4996549/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749HTL.3D ii [1][2] 7.5.2014 4:14PM C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4996549/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749TTL.3D iii 7.5.2014 4:25PM Globalisation and the Roman WorldWorld history, connectivity and material culture Martin Pitts University of Exeter Miguel John VersluysUniversity of Leiden C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/4999207/WORKINGFOLDER/PITTS/9781107043749IMP.3D iv [4-4] 8.5.2014 8:28AM 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usaCambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.It furthers the ...

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“…112. Naerebout (2006/7); Greene (2008). The observations and remarks on globalisation as an anachronistic concept for the Roman world in also fall within this category.…”

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“…Although notably, Greene (2008) argued for the existence of Roman consumerism. Greene (2008, 66) sees consumption simply as a means of fulfilling biological needs, with consumerism occurring on a larger scale driven by culturally determined desires.…”

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2014

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“…Critique has been raised to apply globalization to the ancient Roman world, addressing the anachronistic approach (Dench 2005), the argument that the Roman world was not a global empire (Naerebout 2006(Naerebout -2007Greene 2008), and that this framework offers no new insights or is even a mere fashionable substitute buzz-word for Romanization (Mattingly 2004). questions whether globalization might even serves to legitimize current inequalities, as it may be used as a gloss for neo-colonialism.…”

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Glocalization and Religious Communication in the Roman Empire: Two Case Studies to Reconsider the Local and the Global in Religious Material Culture

Alten

2017

Religions

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Over the period in which the ancient Roman empire grew to its greatest extent, religion in the provinces underwent change. In this article, the author argues that glocalization as an explicit modern conceptual framework has added value to the analysis of religious material culture. First, the glocalization model is discussed in the context of a wider debate on the biased concept of Romanization. Second, a rationale is presented for interpreting Roman religious change with a glocalization perspective. Third, two concrete bodies of archaeological source material are re-interpreted within the glocalization framework: first the little studied rural sanctuary of Dhronecken near ancient Trier and second a particular form of religious gifts that appeared on an empire-wide scale as a ritual with respect to the salus, the well-being of the emperor. Based on the application of the glocalization framework to these sources, the author concludes that religious material culture in these cases can be seen as a process in which new forms of religious communication were created out of an interrelated and ongoing process of local and global cultural expressions.

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“…Some clearly side with the former, while others are willing to push the start back to the nineteenth or even sixteenth century, and others still go back to modern man's early beginnings. Applying theories of globalisation to the Roman world is therefore not the most controversial use of these ideasseveral scholars have recently weighed the merits of this approach (Witcher 2000;Hingley 2003Hingley , 2005Morley 2007: 90-102;Greene 2008;Pitts 2008), and justifiably so. The Roman economy was very advanced for a pre-industrial society.…”

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“…Yet he spends very little time on material culture -although he does briefly explore iron goods. Likewise, Greene's (2008) consumption article focuses on applied art, bead necklaces, pottery and lamps, yet calls for more studies to be carried out in order to determine whether Roman consumption practices can be labelled as 'consumerism'. Importantly, he later recognizes the potential for metalwork as a way to assess how surplus in production could be converted into non-essential goods.…”

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Globalisation, Consumerism and the Ancient Roman Economy: A Preliminary Look at Bronze and Iron Production and Consumption

Ratliff

2011

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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Learning to consume: consumption and consumerism in the Roman Empire

Cited by 34 publications

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Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Glocalization and Religious Communication in the Roman Empire: Two Case Studies to Reconsider the Local and the Global in Religious Material Culture

Globalisation, Consumerism and the Ancient Roman Economy: A Preliminary Look at Bronze and Iron Production and Consumption

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