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Artisans versus nobility? : multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean

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Artisans versus nobility? : multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean / edited by Ann Brysbaert & Alexis Gorgues.

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[Leiden, The Netherlands] : SIdestone Press, 2017.
©2017

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217 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and luxury, on the other, while both types of objects may not always be clearly distinguishable. This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in these productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with the demands connected with elites identities formation, affirmation reconfirmation practices. Innovations and the development of new technologies designed to satisfy the needs of ostentatious behaviour and achieving prestige are key issues of this volume. For example, how can we identify the consequences of such processes, how can we define the role(s) that the craftspeople played in such contexts, and are these always as clear-cut as usually portrayed? The book's common aim is to investigate the economic, socio-political, as well as the technological contexts and backgrounds of the make-up of material culture and technologies in these periods. We examine which role(s) artisans may have played in status and identity formation processes, in rituals and in symbolic performances, in other words, in each aspect of life and death of selected Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age populations in Europe."

Alternative Title

Multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean
Artisans versus nobility?

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Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9789088903960
9088903964
9789088903977
9088903972
9789088903984 (canceled/invalid)
9088903980 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

ocn953806344
953806344
SCSB-5887745

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Columbia University Libraries