Debating Orientalization
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Processes of Change in the Ancient Mediterranean
edited by Nicholas C. Vella, Corinna Riva and Corinna Riva
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Debating Orientalization brings together papers presented at a symposium held in Oxford in 2002 to debate the theme of ancient Orientalization. The volume reassesses the concept of Orientalizing, questioning whether it is valid to interpret Mediterranean-wide processes of change in the Late Bronze and Early iron Ages by the term Orientalization.
Initially coined by art historians in the second half of the nineteenth century to denote an ambivalent artistic style and period, ‘Orientalizing’ has been invariably used to describe a phenomenon, a revolution, or a movement. Regional developments and innovations in the ancient Mediterranean have been explained by reference to an Orient, the metaphorical bazaar containing the artistic opulence and social sophistication that spread to the West and changed it. Debating Orietalization brings together papers presented at a symposium held in Oxford in 2002 to debate the theme of ancient Orientalization. The volume reassesses the concept of Orientalizing, questioning whether it is valid to interpret Mediterranean-wide processes of change in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages by the term Orientalization. Like the ancient Mediterranean itself, the list of contributors is multicultural, and their contributions multidisciplinary, combining various strands of archaeological and textual evidence with different methodological approaches.
Contents List of Contributors vii List of Figures ix 1 Introduction Corinna Riva and Nicholas C. Vella 1 2 Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions Nicholas Purcell 21 3 Approaching Ancient Orientalization via Modern Europe David Wengrow 31 4 Orientalization and Prehistoric Cyprus: The Social Life of Oriental Goods A. Bernard Knapp 48 5 The View from East Greece: Miletus, Samos and Ephesus Sarah P. Morris 66 6 Notes on the Phoenician Component of the Orientalizing Horizon Eric Gubel 85 7 On the Organization of the Phoenician Colonial System in Iberia Maria Eugenia Aubet 94 8 The Orientalizing Period in Etruria: Sophisticated Communities Corinna Riva 110 9 The Orientalizing Phenomenon: Hybridity and Material Culture in the Western Mediterranean Peter van Dommelen 135 10 W(h)ither Orientalization Robin Osborne 153 Index 159
- Edited by Corinna Riva
- Edited by Nicholas C Vella
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