Michael Dietler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584666 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Dietler |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Dietler |
| FIRMA | DIETLER M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 699 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Colonialism, as the term is used here, is not a transhistorical thing but an analytical framework for examining the systems and practices of control through which an enormous variety of expansionary, asymmetrical relations of power between societies have been constructed, maintained, negotiated, and resisted throughout human history. The focus of most social science research on colonialism has been the expansion of the modern European empires and…
Theorizing the Feast
Feasts and Labor Mobilization
Digesting the Feast-Good to Eat, Good to Drink, Good to Think
Feasts
Consumption
The main focus of this article is consumption. Consumption is a material social practice involving the utilization of objects, as opposed to their production or distribution. Some scholars, who argue for the recent development of a distinctive ‘consumer society’ during the modern period, would define it even more specifically as the utilization of commodities, but this seems unnecessarily restrictive. Consumption was recognized as the social proc…
Feasting and Fasting
Food and drink have an especially prominent place in ritual and religion because they are 'embodied material culture'. That is, they are material objects produced specifically to be destroyed by a form of consumption that involves ingestion into the human body. Feasting and fasting are two alternative ways to mobilize the symbolic power of food and drink, through either ritualized commensal consumption or refusal of consumption. Although ethnogra…
Archaeologies of Colonialism
The colonial encounter in the ancient western Mediterranean constitutes a seminal episode in the colonial process through which the indigenous peoples of the territories that would eventually spawn the dominant colonial powers of the modern world—France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany—first became entangled with the Greco-Roman world that later would come to play such an obsessional role in the collective ancestral imagination of these imperia…
Feasts
Archaeologies of Colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. He shows how selective consumption li…
Archaeologies of ColonialismConsumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek and Roman colonists during the first millennium B.C. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, the book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It shows how selective consumption linked na…
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history
Les maisons à cour des IIIe-IIe s. av. J.-C. à Lattes
A discovery of major importance revealed by the recent excavations at the site of Lattes is the existence of a series of houses built around a central courtyard. These courtyard houses, which date to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B. C., represent a significant departure in form and size from the traditional norm of 1-4 room houses arranged in linear blocks. However, they also show strong continuities with local cultural traditions in terms of the int…
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to La…
Alcohol
Alcohol is a special form of embodied material culture and the most widely used psychoactive agent in the world. It has been a fundamentally important social, economic, political, and religious artifact for millennia. This review assesses trends in the anthropological engagement with alcohol during the past two decades since the Annual Review last covered this subject. It highlights the growing archaeological contributions to the field, as well a…
Une statue de guerrier découverte à Lattes (Hérault)
En 2002, une statue de guerrier a été découverte dans la ville antique de Lattara. L’œuvre, réalisée proche de la grandeur naturelle, représente un personnage en position semi-accroupie, avec la jambe droite repliée sous le corps et la jambe gauche relevée à l’avant. Le harnachement figuré sur cette sculpture permet par comparaison de dater cette œuvre du Ve s. av. J.-C. Des rapprochements sont faits avec des documents ibères et italiques
The Warrior of Lattes
Antiquity is pleased to present a preliminary report on the stone statue of a Celtic warrior recently discovered at the celebrated excavation at Lattes, southern France, and dating to around 500 BC
Rituals of commensality and the politics of state formation in the "princely" societies of early Iron Age Europe
Introduction My task in this essay is to address the question «what can an examination of rituals of commensality add to our understanding of political structure and process in the so-called "princely" societies of Early Iron Age Europe ? ». The short answer is, I believe, a great deal. This is both because rituals are potentially recoverable as distinct events in the archaeological record and because, as will be shown, they are a fundamental ins…
A tale of three sites
Three fortified hilltop settlements (oppida) of the 'Celtic' Iron Age have been resurrected in recent history as symbolic focal points in the highly politicized construction of collective memory and identity in modern France. This paper presents a brief comparative consideration of the processes of commemoration by which these three sites were ritually transformed into monuments that have served both to root constructed traditions of national col…
The iron age in Mediterranean France
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 329 pp
The Cup of Gyptis
A critical evaluation of the appropriateness of traditional 'Hellenization' and recently popular 'world-systems' interpretive perspectives on the colonial encounter in Iron Age western Europe is offered. These approaches are shown to have some common flaws stemming from shared implicit premises resulting from a profoundly embedded cultural legacy of hegemonic Helleno-centrism that permeates interpretive discourse. This legacy is a result of the c…
De la préhistoire aux missiles balistiques
Our Ancestors the Gauls
Living on Luo time
Some reflections on the reckoning of time among the Luo people of western Kenya are offered as a contribution to the evolving discussion on differences in the ways that time is conceptualized by archaeologists and by the people who are the subjects of archaeological research. In particular, the paper examines the ways that the passage of time is conceived of and represented in a society which has not yet been entirely converted to the conceptions…
Feasts
Our Ancestors the Gauls
Alcohol
Alcohol is a special form of embodied material culture and the most widely used psychoactive agent in the world. It has been a fundamentally important social, economic, political, and religious artifact for millennia. This review assesses trends in the anthropological engagement with alcohol during the past two decades since the Annual Review last covered this subject. It highlights the growing archaeological contributions to the field, as well a…
Tich Matek
The paper describes an operational sequence of production for the 'household ceramic industry' of the Luo people of Kenya, indicating the variations in technical and design choices at various stages which characterize the traditions of manufacture and the resultant micro‐styles of different potter communities. Examination of the technology of production among the Luo calls into question the basic premises of the functional definition of style pro…
A tale of three sites
Three fortified hilltop settlements (oppida) of the 'Celtic' Iron Age have been resurrected in recent history as symbolic focal points in the highly politicized construction of collective memory and identity in modern France. This paper presents a brief comparative consideration of the processes of commemoration by which these three sites were ritually transformed into monuments that have served both to root constructed traditions of national col…
Archaeologies of ColonialismConsumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek and Roman colonists during the first millennium B.C. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, the book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It shows how selective consumption linked na…
The iron age in Mediterranean France
Living on Luo time
Some reflections on the reckoning of time among the Luo people of western Kenya are offered as a contribution to the evolving discussion on differences in the ways that time is conceptualized by archaeologists and by the people who are the subjects of archaeological research. In particular, the paper examines the ways that the passage of time is conceived of and represented in a society which has not yet been entirely converted to the conceptions…
Feasting and Fasting
Food and drink have an especially prominent place in ritual and religion because they are 'embodied material culture'. That is, they are material objects produced specifically to be destroyed by a form of consumption that involves ingestion into the human body. Feasting and fasting are two alternative ways to mobilize the symbolic power of food and drink, through either ritualized commensal consumption or refusal of consumption. Although ethnogra…
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 329 pp
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history
Consumption
The main focus of this article is consumption. Consumption is a material social practice involving the utilization of objects, as opposed to their production or distribution. Some scholars, who argue for the recent development of a distinctive ‘consumer society’ during the modern period, would define it even more specifically as the utilization of commodities, but this seems unnecessarily restrictive. Consumption was recognized as the social proc…
Une statue de guerrier découverte à Lattes (Hérault)
En 2002, une statue de guerrier a été découverte dans la ville antique de Lattara. L’œuvre, réalisée proche de la grandeur naturelle, représente un personnage en position semi-accroupie, avec la jambe droite repliée sous le corps et la jambe gauche relevée à l’avant. Le harnachement figuré sur cette sculpture permet par comparaison de dater cette œuvre du Ve s. av. J.-C. Des rapprochements sont faits avec des documents ibères et italiques
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Colonialism, as the term is used here, is not a transhistorical thing but an analytical framework for examining the systems and practices of control through which an enormous variety of expansionary, asymmetrical relations of power between societies have been constructed, maintained, negotiated, and resisted throughout human history. The focus of most social science research on colonialism has been the expansion of the modern European empires and…
The Warrior of Lattes
Antiquity is pleased to present a preliminary report on the stone statue of a Celtic warrior recently discovered at the celebrated excavation at Lattes, southern France, and dating to around 500 BC
Tich Matek
The paper describes an operational sequence of production for the 'household ceramic industry' of the Luo people of Kenya, indicating the variations in technical and design choices at various stages which characterize the traditions of manufacture and the resultant micro‐styles of different potter communities. Examination of the technology of production among the Luo calls into question the basic premises of the functional definition of style pro…
Driven by drink
The practice of drinking alcoholic beverages has several characteristic important social roles in traditional small-scale societies, particularly in terms of political economy. Cross-cultural survey of ethnographic data reveals that drink is very frequently a fundamental social artifact which plays an integral role in implementing the social relations expressed and created through hospitality. This intimate association with the institution of hos…
Living on Luo time
Some reflections on the reckoning of time among the Luo people of western Kenya are offered as a contribution to the evolving discussion on differences in the ways that time is conceptualized by archaeologists and by the people who are the subjects of archaeological research. In particular, the paper examines the ways that the passage of time is conceived of and represented in a society which has not yet been entirely converted to the conceptions…
De la préhistoire aux missiles balistiques
Our Ancestors the Gauls
The Cup of Gyptis
A critical evaluation of the appropriateness of traditional 'Hellenization' and recently popular 'world-systems' interpretive perspectives on the colonial encounter in Iron Age western Europe is offered. These approaches are shown to have some common flaws stemming from shared implicit premises resulting from a profoundly embedded cultural legacy of hegemonic Helleno-centrism that permeates interpretive discourse. This legacy is a result of the c…
The iron age in Mediterranean France
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 329 pp
A tale of three sites
Three fortified hilltop settlements (oppida) of the 'Celtic' Iron Age have been resurrected in recent history as symbolic focal points in the highly politicized construction of collective memory and identity in modern France. This paper presents a brief comparative consideration of the processes of commemoration by which these three sites were ritually transformed into monuments that have served both to root constructed traditions of national col…
Rituals of commensality and the politics of state formation in the "princely" societies of early Iron Age Europe
Introduction My task in this essay is to address the question «what can an examination of rituals of commensality add to our understanding of political structure and process in the so-called "princely" societies of Early Iron Age Europe ? ». The short answer is, I believe, a great deal. This is both because rituals are potentially recoverable as distinct events in the archaeological record and because, as will be shown, they are a fundamental ins…
Une statue de guerrier découverte à Lattes (Hérault)
En 2002, une statue de guerrier a été découverte dans la ville antique de Lattara. L’œuvre, réalisée proche de la grandeur naturelle, représente un personnage en position semi-accroupie, avec la jambe droite repliée sous le corps et la jambe gauche relevée à l’avant. Le harnachement figuré sur cette sculpture permet par comparaison de dater cette œuvre du Ve s. av. J.-C. Des rapprochements sont faits avec des documents ibères et italiques
The Warrior of Lattes
Antiquity is pleased to present a preliminary report on the stone statue of a Celtic warrior recently discovered at the celebrated excavation at Lattes, southern France, and dating to around 500 BC
Alcohol
Alcohol is a special form of embodied material culture and the most widely used psychoactive agent in the world. It has been a fundamentally important social, economic, political, and religious artifact for millennia. This review assesses trends in the anthropological engagement with alcohol during the past two decades since the Annual Review last covered this subject. It highlights the growing archaeological contributions to the field, as well a…
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to La…
Les maisons à cour des IIIe-IIe s. av. J.-C. à Lattes
A discovery of major importance revealed by the recent excavations at the site of Lattes is the existence of a series of houses built around a central courtyard. These courtyard houses, which date to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B. C., represent a significant departure in form and size from the traditional norm of 1-4 room houses arranged in linear blocks. However, they also show strong continuities with local cultural traditions in terms of the int…
Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia
Situating ancient Iberia within Mediterranean colonial history and establishing a theoretical framework for approaching encounters between colonists and natives, these studies exemplify the new intellectual vistas opened by the engagement of colonial studies with Iberian history
Archaeologies of Colonialism
The colonial encounter in the ancient western Mediterranean constitutes a seminal episode in the colonial process through which the indigenous peoples of the territories that would eventually spawn the dominant colonial powers of the modern world—France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany—first became entangled with the Greco-Roman world that later would come to play such an obsessional role in the collective ancestral imagination of these imperia…
Feasts
Archaeologies of Colonialism
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. He shows how selective consumption li…
Archaeologies of ColonialismConsumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek and Roman colonists during the first millennium B.C. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, the book explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. It shows how selective consumption linked na…
Feasting and Fasting
Food and drink have an especially prominent place in ritual and religion because they are 'embodied material culture'. That is, they are material objects produced specifically to be destroyed by a form of consumption that involves ingestion into the human body. Feasting and fasting are two alternative ways to mobilize the symbolic power of food and drink, through either ritualized commensal consumption or refusal of consumption. Although ethnogra…
Theorizing the Feast
Feasts and Labor Mobilization
Digesting the Feast-Good to Eat, Good to Drink, Good to Think
Feasts
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