Beatriz Marín-Aguilera
Biographic Data
| ID | 372206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beatriz Marín-Aguilera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beatriz |
| FAMILY NAME | Marín-Aguilera |
| SIGNATURE | MARÍN-AGUILERA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0689-6990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative natur…
Historical leftovers, racialised Others and the coloniality of archaeology
The interest that a ragpicker takes in rubbish and detritus, as described by Baudelaire and further developed by Benjamin (1999: 350), is not dissimilar to the archaeologist's concern with the remnants, the things left behind, abandoned. When filling the silences of the colonial archive, the archaeologist collects and catalogues everything that has been cast off, everything broken and discarded. Going through these jumbled leftovers, both archaeo…
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier
The period between AD 700 and 1500 has been recently labeled as “Africa’s global Golden Age.” This is particularly true for the Shay communities living on the Muslim-Christian frontier in the ninth to fourteenth century AD. Located in the center of the Ethiopian highlands, the Shay faced the expansion of the Christian kingdoms and the advance of the Muslim polities. In an increasingly violent context of religious conversion and war between the tw…
Subaltern Debris
Archaeologists, like many other scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, are particularly concerned with the study of past and present subalterns. Yet the very concept of ‘the subaltern’ is elusive and rarely theorized in archaeological literature, or it is only mentioned in passing. This article engages with the work of Gramsci and Patricia Hill Collins to map a more comprehensive definition of subalternity, and to develop a methodology t…
Ceci n'est pas un subalterne. A Comment on Indigenous Erasure in Ontology-Related Archaeologies
Having followed with great interest the latest scholarly literature on ontology-related archaeologies, especially in this journal, this essay will problematise the extractive nature of much of this scholarship in the long-history of Western imperialism, in which Indigenous knowledge has been collected, depoliticised, classified, and then re-signified within Western frameworks
Challenging Colonial Discourses
The city of Valdivia in Chile was founded c. 1552 by Spaniards at the site of a previous indigenous settlement. After that, several rebellions and conflicts followed one another in quick succession, and by the seventeenth century the area of Valdivia became one of the most heavily fortified within the Spanish empire, effectively creating a colonial frontier. This chapter discusses the idea of colonial borderlands and mestizaje by confronting text…
Colouring the Mediterranean
Purple textiles were highly valued in the ancient Mediterranean as a symbol of prestige, social status and power. Despite the numerous publications focused on the production and spread of purple dye technologies, the discussion regarding this particular dye has often been compartmentalised regionally (eastern or western Mediterranean) and chronologically (second or first millennium bc). The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to propose a full ch…
Weaving rural economies
Studying textile production in the middle Guadiana basin between the seventh and fifth centuries BC, this article reveals the significance of textiles for the development and change of economic complexity in rural societies in Iron Age south-western Iberia. Textiles were at the very heart of the economic transformation of the area in this period. The functional properties of textile tools and their implications for manufacturing different types o…
Dressing the sacrifice
Pithekoussai (Ischia), Phoenician
There are clear signs of a Phoenician presence within the Greek community in Pithekoussai. Phoenician graffiti on amphorae, and several vessels and plates have been found in Greek sites on Ischia, and it is therefore very likely that a group of Phoenicians lived among Greek settlers on the island.
The Semantics of Material Culture
Andalusia has been always a liminal space between the West and the Orient. Since the late 18th century, the Muslim heritage of the region has been imagined, visited, and praised by foreign visitors, and remains its most well-known cultural legacy. Yet the language used in didactic panels when explaining Muslim monuments tends to refer more to its Christian past or its current use than to their Arab history and subsequent alienation under Christia…
Distorted Narratives
International cultural development projects entail a neoliberal agenda that frequently echoes colonial ideologies and discourses. Using the case study of Chaouen, a northern city in Morocco, I argue in this paper that former colonies and aid-receiving countries usually overlap, and serve the former metropolises to continue controlling the former colony’s human and economic resources. I discuss how the former colonial power, in this case Spain, re…
Inhabiting Domestic Space
The archaeology of indigenous houses in the western Mediterranean during the Orientalising period has been largely neglected. Scholars have traditionally focused on funerary contexts and the 'Orientalising' style of native elites, to the point that we know little of the everyday life of people before and during colonial contact in Italy and Iberia. Drawing on the Deleuzian concept of becoming (different), this study explores the flow of continuit…
Fronteras en construcción
Durante las tres últimas décadas, numerosos/as arqueólogos/as han discutido extensamente sobre el ritual funerario original de las poblaciones del sur ibérico entre los siglos ix y vi a.c., esto es, cremación o inhumación. Este debate está además conectado con la existencia o no de complejidad social antes de la llegada fenicia, con la aparición de una élite “orientalizada” y con la adopción de nuevos objetos y prácticas por las poblaciones local…
Ceci n'est pas un subalterne. A Comment on Indigenous Erasure in Ontology-Related Archaeologies
Having followed with great interest the latest scholarly literature on ontology-related archaeologies, especially in this journal, this essay will problematise the extractive nature of much of this scholarship in the long-history of Western imperialism, in which Indigenous knowledge has been collected, depoliticised, classified, and then re-signified within Western frameworks
Colouring the Mediterranean
Purple textiles were highly valued in the ancient Mediterranean as a symbol of prestige, social status and power. Despite the numerous publications focused on the production and spread of purple dye technologies, the discussion regarding this particular dye has often been compartmentalised regionally (eastern or western Mediterranean) and chronologically (second or first millennium bc). The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to propose a full ch…
Subaltern Debris
Archaeologists, like many other scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, are particularly concerned with the study of past and present subalterns. Yet the very concept of ‘the subaltern’ is elusive and rarely theorized in archaeological literature, or it is only mentioned in passing. This article engages with the work of Gramsci and Patricia Hill Collins to map a more comprehensive definition of subalternity, and to develop a methodology t…
Weaving rural economies
Studying textile production in the middle Guadiana basin between the seventh and fifth centuries BC, this article reveals the significance of textiles for the development and change of economic complexity in rural societies in Iron Age south-western Iberia. Textiles were at the very heart of the economic transformation of the area in this period. The functional properties of textile tools and their implications for manufacturing different types o…
Dressing the sacrifice
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier
The period between AD 700 and 1500 has been recently labeled as “Africa’s global Golden Age.” This is particularly true for the Shay communities living on the Muslim-Christian frontier in the ninth to fourteenth century AD. Located in the center of the Ethiopian highlands, the Shay faced the expansion of the Christian kingdoms and the advance of the Muslim polities. In an increasingly violent context of religious conversion and war between the tw…
Distorted Narratives
International cultural development projects entail a neoliberal agenda that frequently echoes colonial ideologies and discourses. Using the case study of Chaouen, a northern city in Morocco, I argue in this paper that former colonies and aid-receiving countries usually overlap, and serve the former metropolises to continue controlling the former colony’s human and economic resources. I discuss how the former colonial power, in this case Spain, re…
Inhabiting Domestic Space
The archaeology of indigenous houses in the western Mediterranean during the Orientalising period has been largely neglected. Scholars have traditionally focused on funerary contexts and the 'Orientalising' style of native elites, to the point that we know little of the everyday life of people before and during colonial contact in Italy and Iberia. Drawing on the Deleuzian concept of becoming (different), this study explores the flow of continuit…
Fronteras en construcción
Durante las tres últimas décadas, numerosos/as arqueólogos/as han discutido extensamente sobre el ritual funerario original de las poblaciones del sur ibérico entre los siglos ix y vi a.c., esto es, cremación o inhumación. Este debate está además conectado con la existencia o no de complejidad social antes de la llegada fenicia, con la aparición de una élite “orientalizada” y con la adopción de nuevos objetos y prácticas por las poblaciones local…
Pithekoussai (Ischia), Phoenician
There are clear signs of a Phoenician presence within the Greek community in Pithekoussai. Phoenician graffiti on amphorae, and several vessels and plates have been found in Greek sites on Ischia, and it is therefore very likely that a group of Phoenicians lived among Greek settlers on the island.
The Semantics of Material Culture
Andalusia has been always a liminal space between the West and the Orient. Since the late 18th century, the Muslim heritage of the region has been imagined, visited, and praised by foreign visitors, and remains its most well-known cultural legacy. Yet the language used in didactic panels when explaining Muslim monuments tends to refer more to its Christian past or its current use than to their Arab history and subsequent alienation under Christia…
Distorted Narratives
International cultural development projects entail a neoliberal agenda that frequently echoes colonial ideologies and discourses. Using the case study of Chaouen, a northern city in Morocco, I argue in this paper that former colonies and aid-receiving countries usually overlap, and serve the former metropolises to continue controlling the former colony’s human and economic resources. I discuss how the former colonial power, in this case Spain, re…
Inhabiting Domestic Space
The archaeology of indigenous houses in the western Mediterranean during the Orientalising period has been largely neglected. Scholars have traditionally focused on funerary contexts and the 'Orientalising' style of native elites, to the point that we know little of the everyday life of people before and during colonial contact in Italy and Iberia. Drawing on the Deleuzian concept of becoming (different), this study explores the flow of continuit…
Challenging Colonial Discourses
The city of Valdivia in Chile was founded c. 1552 by Spaniards at the site of a previous indigenous settlement. After that, several rebellions and conflicts followed one another in quick succession, and by the seventeenth century the area of Valdivia became one of the most heavily fortified within the Spanish empire, effectively creating a colonial frontier. This chapter discusses the idea of colonial borderlands and mestizaje by confronting text…
Colouring the Mediterranean
Purple textiles were highly valued in the ancient Mediterranean as a symbol of prestige, social status and power. Despite the numerous publications focused on the production and spread of purple dye technologies, the discussion regarding this particular dye has often been compartmentalised regionally (eastern or western Mediterranean) and chronologically (second or first millennium bc). The aim of this paper is threefold: (1) to propose a full ch…
Weaving rural economies
Studying textile production in the middle Guadiana basin between the seventh and fifth centuries BC, this article reveals the significance of textiles for the development and change of economic complexity in rural societies in Iron Age south-western Iberia. Textiles were at the very heart of the economic transformation of the area in this period. The functional properties of textile tools and their implications for manufacturing different types o…
Dressing the sacrifice
Subaltern Debris
Archaeologists, like many other scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, are particularly concerned with the study of past and present subalterns. Yet the very concept of ‘the subaltern’ is elusive and rarely theorized in archaeological literature, or it is only mentioned in passing. This article engages with the work of Gramsci and Patricia Hill Collins to map a more comprehensive definition of subalternity, and to develop a methodology t…
Ceci n'est pas un subalterne. A Comment on Indigenous Erasure in Ontology-Related Archaeologies
Having followed with great interest the latest scholarly literature on ontology-related archaeologies, especially in this journal, this essay will problematise the extractive nature of much of this scholarship in the long-history of Western imperialism, in which Indigenous knowledge has been collected, depoliticised, classified, and then re-signified within Western frameworks
Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier
The period between AD 700 and 1500 has been recently labeled as “Africa’s global Golden Age.” This is particularly true for the Shay communities living on the Muslim-Christian frontier in the ninth to fourteenth century AD. Located in the center of the Ethiopian highlands, the Shay faced the expansion of the Christian kingdoms and the advance of the Muslim polities. In an increasingly violent context of religious conversion and war between the tw…
Historical leftovers, racialised Others and the coloniality of archaeology
The interest that a ragpicker takes in rubbish and detritus, as described by Baudelaire and further developed by Benjamin (1999: 350), is not dissimilar to the archaeologist's concern with the remnants, the things left behind, abandoned. When filling the silences of the colonial archive, the archaeologist collects and catalogues everything that has been cast off, everything broken and discarded. Going through these jumbled leftovers, both archaeo…
Locality and Agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Against the background of the interest in ancient Mediterranean connectivity and globalization, the present volume examines local places and local communities. Exploring the interplay between the local and the global, the focus shifts from long-distance connections and 'global' trends to the local dimensions of Mediterranean interactions, highlighting how local contexts engaged with their long-distance counterparts. Given the transformative natur…
History (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (4 works) · Economics (4 works)