The Emperor's New Clothes? The Utility of Identity in Roman Archaeology

Pitts, Martin

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“…101. There is now a very large literature on the inadequacies of Romanisation, notably Hill (2001, and Pitts (2007). 102.…”

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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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“…101. There is now a very large literature on the inadequacies of Romanisation, notably Hill (2001, and Pitts (2007). 102.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For examples of studies of identity in Roman archaeology see Laurence & Berry (1998);Gardner (2007a);and Hales & Hodos (2010). Pitts (2007) provides some critique of this phenomenon. 105.…”

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Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

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2014

Globalisation and the Roman World

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“…Despite being a core theme in many areas of archaeological research, the term is rarely explicitly defined or adequately theorized (see McClain 2012, 142-3 in relation to medieval archaeology and Pitts (2007) in relation to Roman archaeology). As Pitts (2007,700) argues without such a definition, studies can become as limited as culture historical approaches, identifying groups not through assemblages of objects, but characterising them through their social practices.…”

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Cuisine and Urban Identities in Medieval England: Objects, Foodstuffs and Urban Life in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Hampshire

Jervis¹

2012

Archaeological Journal

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SummaryIdentity is formed and reproduced through our relationships with human and non-human others. This paper applies this perspective to conduct an archaeological investigation of how identities emerged in urban environments during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries through cuisine. This is achieved through a comparative analysis of food remains and the associated material culture from a range of medieval sites in Hampshire of different size and status. I argue that choices and strategies in preparing, cooking and consuming food were enmeshed within multiple facets of urban identity including gender, status and profession.Introduction [a]

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“…Pits u ovome vidi opasnost od uvođenja koncepta identiteta kao nove paradigme kojom se delovi materijalne kulture vezuju za određene identitete, bez argumentovanja logike koja stoji iza njih, i da se pritom stvara slika koja (opet) više govori o savremenim kontekstima i perspektivama istraživača nego o temi kojom se bave. Da bi se izbegao ovakav rezultat, potrebno je pre svega razraditi teorijska polazišta koja jasno definišu upotrebu termina, ali i metodologiju kojom se neka materijalna kultura vezuje za izvesna identitetska određenja (Pitts 2007, Mihajlović 2012.…”

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“…Iako, kao što Pits kaže (Pitts 2007), u naše interpretacije prošlosti učitavamo naše svakodnevne stavove i gledišta i po tome se ne razlikujemo mnogo od Momzena i Haverfilda sa kraja 19. i početka 20. veka ma koliko naši stavovi bili "savremeniji" i promišljeniji, najvažnije je biti svestan tih okolnosti, svih prednosti i mana, i biti spreman napustiti neke stavove ukoliko se pokažu nepouzdanim. Samo stalnim preispitivanjem stavova, metodologije i rezultata možemo biti sigurni da smo na pravom putu za rešavanje problema.…”

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Gladiatorial games in province of Dalmatia: The role of spectacles in construction of Roman identity

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The Emperor's New Clothes? The Utility of Identity in Roman Archaeology

Cited by 70 publications

References 37 publications

Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Polybius’s global moment and human mobility through ancient Italy

Cuisine and Urban Identities in Medieval England: Objects, Foodstuffs and Urban Life in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Hampshire

Gladiatorial games in province of Dalmatia: The role of spectacles in construction of Roman identity

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