Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

While traditional archaeologies in the East Mediterranean have tended to be reductive in their approach to material culture and how it was produced, used, and exchanged, this book reviews current research on material culture, focusing on issues such as the biography of objects, inalienable possessions, and hybridization - exploring how these issues can further illuminate the material world of the communities of the Bronze Age Mediterranean.

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

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