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Paru le 01/01/2016 | Broché 246 pages
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Conceptualising early Colonisation focuses on various ways scholars represent ancient Greek colonisation in Italy. The conventional term "colonisation" has come under scrutiny for its misleading implication of imperialism, unbalanced interactions between "colonisers" and "colonised" and institutionalised racism, that characterised modern colonial movements. The complexity of the phenomenon in Antiquity does not allow for a straightforward equation with modern colonisation, but alternative concepts for this ancient "colonisation" appear to be equally elusive. Conceptualising early colonisation needs to take the entanglement with other processes into account, as there are state formation, urbanisation, technological innovations, increasing connectivity and identity formation, among others.
This volume constitutes a second group of texts that have originally been presented at the Contextualising early colonisation conference, held in Rome in June 2012. Papers address general questions on how early colonisation should be conceptualised, and several present in-depth case studies that explore how various approaches and terminologies operate in practice. Concepts that are explored range from migration, network theory and identity formation over postcolonialism, gender theory to connectivity.
Lieve Donnellan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Archaeological Institute of the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Her research focuses on intercultural interaction and human mobility in the Mediterranean, especially during the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period in Southern Italy and Sicily. Her article Apollo mediating identities in early Greek Sicily was awarded the BaBesch Byvanck Award in 2012.
Valentino Nizzo is Functionary Archaeologist for the Italian Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo - Direzione generale Musei. He has published more than hundred articles and three books, among which Ritorno ad Ischia. Dalla stratigrafia della necropoli di Pithekoussai alla tipologia dei materiali (Napoli 2007, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard) e Archeologia e Antropologia della Morte: storia di un'idea (Bari 2015, Bibliotheca Archaeologica - Edipuglia).
Gert-Jan Burgers holds a chair in Mediterranean Archaeology, at the Faculty of Humanities of the VU University Amsterdam. The greatest part of his academic career has been concerned with the archaeology of (Southern) Italy, in particular of the protohistoric phases.
