
Of Things and Stories
Current Approaches to Object Biography, Medium, and Materiality
Archaeological Institute of America (Publisher)
Published on 1. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-1-931909-46-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the gold of the shaft graves of Mycenae to an undecorated Late Roman lekythos, and from facade statuary in Roman Ephesus to electroplated teapots in present-day household assemblages on the island of Kythera, this volume presents a selection of essays on the complex and ever-progressing relationships between things and people across time and space. Past and present advances in the discourse on materialisms are approached from a case study perspective through the lens of two different but complementary themes: object biography and materiality in relation to medium. Each essay offers a distinct insight into the always shifting meanings, values, and relational connections of things, exploring a diversity of concepts, contexts, and material elements from prehistory to today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illus.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-931909-46-4 (9781931909464)
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Christina Marini is an independent researcher based in Athens, Greece. She received a DPhil in classical archaeology from the University of Oxford in 2019, and has collaborated as an associate researcher and pottery specialist with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, the German Archaeological Institute, and the University of Athens. Her work focuses on matters of materiality and social practice, and the various modes of human mobility.
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory holds degrees in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. She is co-director of the Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey, assistant director of the Michigan State University Excavations at Isthmia, executive officer and archaeological research facilitator at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, and a collaborator of the Erasmus+ KA2 project: Finds Stories: Addressing Mobility through People and Objects.
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory holds degrees in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. She is co-director of the Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey, assistant director of the Michigan State University Excavations at Isthmia, executive officer and archaeological research facilitator at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, and a collaborator of the Erasmus+ KA2 project: Finds Stories: Addressing Mobility through People and Objects.
Content
Series Editor's Preface
Editors' Preface
Introduction
Christina Marini and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
Memoirs of a Late Roman Lekythos: Insights from the Hill of Zeus, Corinth
Mark D. Hammond
The Circulation of Achilles's Shield on the Berthouville Pitchers
David Petrain
The Many Lives of Chikaba's Jar
Sirio Canos-Donnay and Beatrijs G. de Groot
Biographical Perspectives on the Materiality of a Diaspora: Teapots of Greek-Australian Migrants from Kythera
Christina Marini and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
Affective Gold: Exploring Materiality in Early Mycenaean Burials
Rachel Phillips
A Niche Medium: Medial Properties of Facade Statuary in Roman Ephesus
Roko Rumora
Containing Yourself: Romano-British Face Pots as Proxy for Body and Self
Danielle Vander Horst
Editors' Preface
Introduction
Christina Marini and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
Memoirs of a Late Roman Lekythos: Insights from the Hill of Zeus, Corinth
Mark D. Hammond
The Circulation of Achilles's Shield on the Berthouville Pitchers
David Petrain
The Many Lives of Chikaba's Jar
Sirio Canos-Donnay and Beatrijs G. de Groot
Biographical Perspectives on the Materiality of a Diaspora: Teapots of Greek-Australian Migrants from Kythera
Christina Marini and Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory
Affective Gold: Exploring Materiality in Early Mycenaean Burials
Rachel Phillips
A Niche Medium: Medial Properties of Facade Statuary in Roman Ephesus
Roko Rumora
Containing Yourself: Romano-British Face Pots as Proxy for Body and Self
Danielle Vander Horst