The Perception of Egypt in Networks of Being and Becoming:

Mol, Eva

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“…And it is about the transformative capacities of intercultural encounters. ‘Glocalization’ is only a word, but the basic questions of the Romanization debate can be very usefully reconceived within this framework – as explained and illustrated, for example, by Witcher (2000), Pitts (2008), Alexandridis (2010) or Mol (2012). Globalization is therefore an excellent tool to make us think local and global, and to get us beyond provincial Roman archaeologies and beyond Roman and Native at last.…”

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Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Versluys¹

2014

Arch. Dial.

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This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) material-culture studies as important theoretical directions for the (near) future. The present state and scope of the Romanization debate, however, seem to prevent a fruitful development in that direction. The first part of this paper therefore briefly analyses the Romanization debate and argues that large parts of ‘Anglo-Saxon Roman archaeology’ have never been really post-colonial, but in fact from the mid-1990s onwards developed a theoretical position that should be characterized as anti-colonial. This ideologically motivated development has resulted in several unhealthy divides within the field, as well as in an uncomfortable ending of the Romanization debate. The present consensus within English-speaking Roman archaeology ‘to do away with Romanization’ does not seem to get us at all ‘beyond Romans and Natives’, and, moreover, has effectively halted most of the discussion about how to understand and conceptualize ‘Rome’. The second part of the article presents two propositions outlining how to move forward: globalization theory and material-culture studies. Through this focus we will be able to better understand ‘Rome’ as (indicating) objects in motion and the human–thing entanglements resulting from a remarkable punctuation of connectivity. This focus is important as an alternative perspective to all existing narratives about Romanization because these remain fundamentally historical, in the sense that they reduce objects to expressions (of identity) alone. It is time for our discussions about ‘Rome’ to move ‘beyond representation’ and to become genuinely archaeological at last, by making material culture, with its agency and materiality, central to the analyses.

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Section: Local and Global: Beyond Provincial Roman Archaeologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Versluys¹

2014

Arch. Dial.

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Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture

Barrett

2017

Oxford Handbook Topics in Classical Studies

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This review article addresses current controversies and opportunities in research on the roles, uses, and meanings of “Egypt” in ancient Roman visual and material culture. Accordingly, the article investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of current scholarly approaches; and analyzes the field’s intersections with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to, (1) 21st-century archaeology’s “material turn”; (2) the construction of new interpretive frameworks for cross-cultural interactions and “hybridization”; and (3) increased attention to the relationships among artifacts, contexts, and assemblages. Roman visual representations of Egypt provide a rich testing ground for research on intercultural exchange, the lived experience of empire, and the complex entanglement of people, things, and images.

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Les acteurs-réseaux en archéologie : état de la question et perspectives futures

Oyen¹

2014

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The Perception of Egypt in Networks of Being and Becoming:

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Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Understanding objects in motion. Anarchaeologicaldialogue on Romanization

Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture

Les acteurs-réseaux en archéologie : état de la question et perspectives futures

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