Forsaken Relics: Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS)) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Uses case studies to examine the social context and cultural and political management of appropriating abandoned objects and assets.
Forsaken Relics is the result of an interdisciplinary dialogue between history, archaeology, and ethnography on the topic of the appropriation of disputed goods and places. Scholars with diverse backgrounds convened to address this common challenge: how different societies in time and space managed to claim and re-appropriate alleged ‘abandoned’ or ‘ownerless’ goods or things ‘in ruin’.
The volume includes a diverse range of case studies – from Neolithic sites in Eastern Europe to ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean, encompassing early modern and present-day Europe – reflecting on the ways in which actions can be used to legitimise appropriation, with a particular focus on ritual actions and practices.
The objective of this book is to stimulate comparative analysis of this topic in both ancient and modern societies, by identifying the actors of appropriation, examining the definition of abandonment, and exploring the ritual aspects intrinsic in actions such as inventorying, dedication and communication to ancestors, and prayers to gods. Ritual actions, in the last instance, were designed to legitimise the reappropriation and resignification of places and goods classified as abandoned or in a state of ruin, and to recreate locality, kinship, and communities.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Appropriating places
1. The biographies of Neolithic burnt houses: Insights from the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine
Bisserka Gaydarska, Brian Buchanan, and John Chapman
2. Roman euocatio, or how to get possession of a deserted city
Chiara Ombretta Tommasi
3. Reclaiming the funerary space: The protection and re-use of tombs in the burial grounds of Hierapolis in Phrygia
Anna Anguissola
Redefining abandonment
4. Relic(t) ecologies. Exploring abandonment in the Apuan Alps
F. Anichini, S. Basile, G. Gattiglia, and C. Sciuto
5. Depopulating landscapes: Methodology and the materiality of archives in Calabria
Joseph J. Viscomi
6. Rehabi(li)tating abandonment. Urban occupations and their regenerative practices
Antonio Stopani
Claiming things
7. After death: Rituality used to legitimise the appropriation of abandoned goods in ancient Egypt
Gianluca Miniaci
8. How to preserve an oikos? The case of Isaeus’s Oration VIII
Angelica Tortorella
9. How to claim things with rites. Care for the dead and inheritance rights in early modern Europe (and beyond)
Alessandro Buono
Afterword
10. Biographies of place and the significance of place-value
John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
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About the Author
Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.
Gianluca Miniaci is Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL – London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt) and principal investigator for four large national projects. His main research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age, and the global and comparative history and archaeology.
Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Forsaken Relics examines the intricate mechanisms of ritualistic appropriation of ruined and/or abandoned assets and artifacts. It explores how this process occurs in situations where there is legislation to regulate the appropriation of ownerless property, as well as in cases where such rules are either absent or contested, leading to disputes and conflicts. Every society has developed its unique ways of managing the re-appropriation of 'ownerless things', such as places and houses abandoned after conflicts, crises, or natural disasters, forsaken cemeteries, tombs, and forgotten goods. These practices often involve the use of ritualistic methods to mask the intent to appropriate abandoned artifacts. The book aims to stimulate comparative analysis of this topic in both ancient and modern societies, profiling the identity of the 'actors' of appropriation, examining the definition of abandonment, and exploring the ritual aspects such as inventorying material, dedication to ancestors, and prayers to gods that legitimize the re-appropriation of places and goods classified as abandoned. AUTHORS: Alessandro Buono is associate professor of Early Modern History at the University of Pisa since 2018. He obtained his PhD from the University of Florence. Since 2010 he has been primarily concerned with the history of inheritance rights in Italy and the Spanish Empire, the history of identity and identification of persons, and the comparative history of vacant inheritances and abandoned things. Gianluca Miniaci is Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, and Chercheur associe at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt) and principal investigator for four large national projects. His main research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age, and the global and comparative history and archaeology. Anna Anguissola is Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology and the Director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collections of the University of Pisa. Her principal research on Graeco-Roman visual material and literary culture has focused on architectural technologies, urban development, the construction of public and private space, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, the relationship between Greek and Roman art, and the reception of classical art in later periods. 100 b/w illustrations Uses case studies to examine the intricate mechanisms of ritualistic appropriation of ruined and/or abandoned assets and artifacts in the ancient and medieval worlds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798888571149
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