Gardner, AN;
(2014)
Changing Materialities.
In: Millett, M and Moore, A and Revell, L, (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook to Roman Britain.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
The material signature of the Roman period in Britain is undeniably distinctive, marked as it is not only by a whole series of changes and additions to the formal repertoire of artefacts but also by a great proliferation of the sheer numbers of things. The traditional explanation for the changing contours of materiality in Roman Britain has been the over-simplistic narrative of ‘Romanization’. While it is certainly the case that there is a connection between Roman imperialism and material change, this traditional picture cannot be sustained in the face of new understandings of the material patterning in Roman Britain, and of the ways in which people interact with material culture in more general terms. In this chapter, I will review this recent empirical and theoretical work to demonstrate how this is gradually giving us a fuller picture of the complicated and messy reality of life in the Roman empire.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Changing Materialities |
| ISBN-13: | 9780199697713 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697713.013.028 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697713.0... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | "Changing Materialities", in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain, edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore, 2014, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697713.001.0001. |
| Keywords: | agency, materiality, networks of exchange, imperialism, identity, post-processualism, postcolonial theory, phenomenology, cultural practice |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1461880 |
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