1st Edition
Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World
List of figures and table
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Utilizing globalization and transculturality for the study of the pre-modern world
Serena Autiero and Matthew A. Cobb
Section I: Theory and methodology
Chapter 1
From the field to the globe: the archaeology of globalization
Serena Autiero
Chapter 2
Globalization, the highest stage of modernization?
Dario Nappo
Section II: Bronze age globalization
Chapter 3
Bronzization, the globalization of the Bronze Age in Afro-Eurasia
Tibor-Tamás Daróczi
Chapter 4
Agencement, matter flows and itinerary of object in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: a new materialities approach to globalization
Louise Steel
Chapter 5
Dragon divers and clamorous fishermen: Bronzization and transcultural marine spaces in the Japanese archipelago
Mark Hudson
Section III: Globalization in the early historic Indian Ocean
Chapter 6
Archaeology of globalization: a retrospective view of the Indian Ocean world and implications for the present (500 BCE – 300 CE)
Sunil Gupta
Chapter 7
Oikoumenisation and the Ptolemaic beginnings of the Indian Ocean trade
Troy Wilkinson
Chapter 8
Mediterranean goods in an Indian context: the use of transcultural theory for the study of the ancient Indian Ocean world
Matthew A. Cobb
Chapter 9
The Indian figurine from Pompeii as an emblem of East-West trade in the early Roman Imperial era
Laura R. Weinstein
Section IV: Global studies in complex historical contexts
Chapter 10
A universal dhamma: Buddhism and globalization at the time of Aśoka
Signe Cohen
Chapter 11
Globalization and Gandhāra art
Ashwini Lakshminarayanan
Chapter 12
Glocalization as a key to understanding cultural change in São Paulo’s colonial ceramics
Marcelo Rolim Manfrini
Index
Biography
Dr. Serena Autiero is a researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum and honorary professor of archaeology at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. She is interested in cultural exchange in Eurasia in antiquity, Silk Road studies, ancient globalizations, with a special focus on the Indian Ocean World. She has authored a number of publications in international journals and her monograph on early globalization in the Western Indian Ocean will be published in Spring 2022.
Dr. Matthew Adam Cobb is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His research focuses on Mediterranean integration into wider Indian Ocean networks of trade during Antiquity. Among other publications, he is the author of Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE (2018) and the edited book, The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts (2019).
