Religion and the Making of Roman Africa - Matthew M. McCarty

Religion and the Making of Roman Africa

Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire
Buch | Hardcover
482 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-02018-4 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
The first English-language account of religious change in Roman North Africa, challenging 150 years of colonial scholarship and offering new paths forward for studying and decolonizing the archaeology and history of Roman provinces.
This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments associated with such offerings. Earlier colonial archaeologies have stressed the failure of the empire to 'Romanize' Indigenous and Punic settler populations, mobilizing inscriptions and sculpture to mirror and explain modern European colonial failures as the result of ethnic African permanence. Instead, this book uses postcolonial theory, pragmatic semiotics, material epistemologies, and relational ontologies to develop a new account of how Roman hegemony transformed and was reproduced through signifying practices in even a seemingly traditional, 'un-Roman' rite such as child sacrifice. In doing so, the book offers a model for understanding the Roman Empire, the peoples who lived across its provinces, and their material worlds.

Matthew M. McCarty is Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. He has directed the Apulum Roman Villa Project and the Apulum Mithraeum III Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for which he won the Mary White Prize from the Classical Association of Canada.

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. Colonial Histories: 1. Colonial traditions; 2. Historicizing stelae and sanctuaries; Part II. Themes in the Making of Hegemony: 3. Making Africa with Punic signs; 4. Making a God; 5. Making sanctuary communities; 6. Making children subjects of empire; 7. Making offerings; 8. Remaking spaces and societies; 9. Making empire: signs, stelae, and traditions; Appendix 1. Dating stele-sanctuaries; Appendix 2. Concordance of ancient/modern place names; References; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 13 Maps; 41 Halftones, color; 11 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, color; 21 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Gewicht 1053 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-107-02018-2 / 1107020182
ISBN-13 978-1-107-02018-4 / 9781107020184
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