Objects and identities : Roman Britain and the North-Western provinces
Eckardt, HellaAuthor
This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. The author combines theoretical awareness and a willingness to engage with questions of social and cultural identity with a thorough engagement with the well-published but underused material culture of Rome's northern provinces.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume explores Rome's northern provinces through the portable artefacts people used and left behind. The author combines theoretical awareness and a willingness to engage with questions of social and cultural identity with a thorough engagement with the well-published but underused material culture of Rome's northern provinces.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 10, 2015).
Material culture and ethnic identity -- Seeing black : Africans in Roman Britain -- Materialities and meanings : exotic and local materials in Roman Britain -- Localized consumption : bone 'spoons' and regional identities in Roman Britain -- Embodied meanings : the 'right' hand in the north-western provinces -- Writing power and status : the artefactual evidence for literacy -- Local , regional, and inter-provincial identities and provincial material culture.
Material culture
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Great Britain