1st Edition
Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
1. Introduction: Connected Worlds 2. Colonies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean 3. Entangled Worlds: Hybridization and an International Style 4. Greeting Gifts and Competitive Gift Exchange 5. Commodities, Luxuries and the Creation of Desire 6. Technologies of Enchantment 7. Materiality and the Biography of Objects 8. Conclusions
Biography
Part I: Introduction 1. Anthropological Perspectives on Culture Contact Part II: Hybrid Communities 2. Colonies in the Bronze Age Mediterranean 3. Hybridization Part III: Perspectives on Bronze Age Exchange 4. Greeting Gifts 5. Mercantile Exchange Part IV: The Material World 6. Craft and the Kingly Ideal 7. Materiality and the Biography of Objects Part V: Concluding Remarks
"This book...is an interesting read that covers a vast chronological and geographical range...of studies on the interaction of the various peoples of the Bronze Age Aegean, Cyprus, and the Levant. It is well written and clearly structured and...[it] succeeds in its aim to show the versatility of early connections between various regions in the eastern Mediterranean and the ways in which these connections shaped the material and immaterial world of its inhabitants." - Jorrit M. Kelder, American Journal of Archaeology
