Forsaken Relics
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-114-9 (ISBN)
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_Forsaken Relics_ examines the intricate mechanisms of ritualistic appropriation of ruined and/or abandoned assets and artifacts. It explores how this process occurs in situations where there is legislation to regulate the appropriation of ownerless property, as well as in cases where such rules are either absent or contested, leading to disputes and conflicts.
Every society has developed its unique ways of managing the re-appropriation of ‘ownerless things’, such as places and houses abandoned after conflicts, crises, or natural disasters, forsaken cemeteries, tombs, and forgotten goods. These practices often involve the use of ritualistic methods to mask the intent to appropriate abandoned artifacts. The book aims to stimulate comparative analysis of this topic in both ancient and modern societies, profiling the identity of the ‘actors’ of appropriation, examining the definition of abandonment, and exploring the ritual aspects such as inventorying material, dedication to ancestors, and prayers to gods that legitimize the re-appropriation of places and goods classified as abandoned.
Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire. Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).
Editors’ Preface
Appropriating places
1. The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: insights from the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine
Bisserka Gaydarska, Brian Buchanan and John Chapman
2. Roman Euocatio, or How To Get Possession of a Deserted City
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
3. Reclaiming the funerary space: The protection and reuse of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia
Anna Anguissola
Redefining abandonment
4. Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps
F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, and C. Sciuto
5. Depopulating Landscapes: Methodology and the Materiality of Archives in Calabria
Joseph J. Viscomi
6. Rehabi(li)tating Abandonment. Urban Occupations and their Regenerative Practices
Antonio Stopani
Claiming Things
7. After Death: The Rituality as a Legitimating Appropriation of Abandoned Goods in Ancient Egypt
Gianluca Miniaci
8. How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus’ VIII Oration
Angelica Tortorella
9. How to Claim Things with Rites. Care for the Dead and Inheritance Rights in Early Modern Europe (and beyond)
Alessandro Buono
Afterword
10. Biographies of place and the significance of place-value
John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 100 B/W illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-88857-114-9 / 9798888571149 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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