Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED Tracing Cultural Links: Theory and Practices of the Complexity between the Prehistory and the Modern Period in the Mediterranean Basin
Content:
Hybridization, transculturation, assimilation and cultural change are crucial concepts in our society.
In broad terms, they show how cultural links between different social groups are powerful indicators of the emergence of new societies. They rise spontaneously or triggered by external events, but the picture is not so simplistic: it is worth to address shades and variables in order to characterize certain contexts, in which these processes took place by questioning the nature of the cultural links.
Recognizing their presence/absence in foreign objects, skills and ideas, as well as in the continuity of certain past features, styles and functions will allow a wide analysis of the cultural encounters, going beyond mere chronological schemes.
To do so, it is fundamental that different disciplines, such as archaeology, history, art history, ethnology, anthropology and sociology contribute to the debate, discussing their own subjects and their methodologies, providing their own insight.
This session deals with evidences from the Mediterranean basin between the Prehistory and the Late Antiquity.
The analysis will be focused on the cultural links established between humans (e.g. transfer of knowledge), non-humans (e.g. associations in archaeological contexts) and between them (e.g. emergence of new spatial vocabulary or cultural setting).
To compare different experiences a brief questionnaire will be provided after the session.
Contributors from different geographical, chronological domains and from different humanities’ disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply.
Keywords:
cultural encounters, cultural links, born of new societies, Hybridation, transcultation, assimilation
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Cristina Nervi (Italy) 1
Co-organisers:
Vincenzo Soria (Portugal) 2
Gianluca Minetto (Italy) 3
Affiliations:
1. MIUR
2. Universidade de Lisboa
3. University of the Oriental Piedmont
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