Asuman Lätzer-Lasar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5646784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asuman Lätzer-Lasar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asuman |
| FAMILY NAME | Lätzer-Lasar |
| SIGNATURE | LÄTZER-LASAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1588-5238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A new approach to a data ontology for the qualitative assessment of funerary spaces
Burials have long been one of the most important sources of archaeology, especially when studying past social practices and structure. Unlike archaeological finds from settlements, objects from graves can be assumed to have been placed there for a certain purpose. The same logic holds true for where these object were placed: We must also understand the (ritual) acts of deposition and construction as intentional practice that moves the spatial con…
United Professionally beyond Death
The assumption that graves were located outside the city or the so-called pomerium disperses when taking a closer look at the urban complexity as well as the dynamic fluidity of territorial and sacred boundaries. The study of urban deathscapes, analysed with the integrative research approach of Religious Ancient Placemaking, unfolds that due to urban growth and the accompanying diversification and densification, lived realities, which are crucial…
Making Place in the Ancient City
This special issue explores the potential application of one of the classic — but in our view still underappreciated — concepts of urban studies, namely place-making, as a lens to better understand the very diverse and highly complex interwoven layers of meaning invested in a specific form of settlement characterized by density and diversity, namely the city. ‘Owning’ a particular place in the city was an essential factor in identifying with the …
Introduction to ‘Beneath the Surface
The Heterarchy of the Roman Galli
Aim of this paper is to describe the strategies that a specific type of Roman priests, namely the galli who worshipped the goddess Mater Magna, used to enhance their own religious authority. By doing so, they were transcending a state-given political hierarchy and a long established social normativity, namely the masculine hegemony of the ancient Roman society. More generally, temporary priestly offices were highly political: every Roman statesma…
Testing a New Methodological Approach on an Old Case Study
The paper aims to bring together the diverse – and at some point even disparate – research on Mater Magna veneration. The very heterogeneous kinds of data, stemming from archaeology, ancient history, philology and religious history, are connected by an analytical grid, the so-called Religious Ancient Placemaking (RAP) approach. The grid allows us to analyse the interdisciplinary data equally through the creation of an ontology for a knowledge net…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Placemaking of the dead in urban Rome
The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the religious placemaking of the dead in the very dense and diverse metropolis of Rome in order to understand the role of the urban in the burial of the deceased in antiquity. In the Republican and Imperial periods in Rome, there is ample evidence of the impressive variety of sites and practices by which the dead were buried. However, the location of burial sites and the practices changed dynamically …
Archaeology and Sacred Space
Robert Knapp, Pilger, Priester und Propheten. Alltag und Religionen im Römischen Reich. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta 2018
Die vermeintlich pergamenische Importkeramik in Ephesos
Metaphysical Foundations of Knowledge and Ethics in Chinese and European Philosophy
In the history of Chinese and European philosophy, metaphysics has played an outstanding role: it is a theoretical framework which provides the basis for a philosophical understanding of the world and the self. A theory of the self is well integrated in a metaphysical understanding of the totality of nature as a dynamic process of continuous changes. According to this view, the purpose of existence can be conceived of as the development and reali…
Die vermeintlich pergamenische Importkeramik in Ephesos
Introduction to ‘Beneath the Surface
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
Metaphysical Foundations of Knowledge and Ethics in Chinese and European Philosophy
In the history of Chinese and European philosophy, metaphysics has played an outstanding role: it is a theoretical framework which provides the basis for a philosophical understanding of the world and the self. A theory of the self is well integrated in a metaphysical understanding of the totality of nature as a dynamic process of continuous changes. According to this view, the purpose of existence can be conceived of as the development and reali…
Robert Knapp, Pilger, Priester und Propheten. Alltag und Religionen im Römischen Reich. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta 2018
Die vermeintlich pergamenische Importkeramik in Ephesos
Archaeology and Sacred Space
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
Placemaking of the dead in urban Rome
The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the religious placemaking of the dead in the very dense and diverse metropolis of Rome in order to understand the role of the urban in the burial of the deceased in antiquity. In the Republican and Imperial periods in Rome, there is ample evidence of the impressive variety of sites and practices by which the dead were buried. However, the location of burial sites and the practices changed dynamically …
Testing a New Methodological Approach on an Old Case Study
The paper aims to bring together the diverse – and at some point even disparate – research on Mater Magna veneration. The very heterogeneous kinds of data, stemming from archaeology, ancient history, philology and religious history, are connected by an analytical grid, the so-called Religious Ancient Placemaking (RAP) approach. The grid allows us to analyse the interdisciplinary data equally through the creation of an ontology for a knowledge net…
Entangling Urban and Religious History
The general forms of urban life and the very process of urbanization – typically accepted as a given and seemingly irreversible – have only rarely been addressed beyond Western modernity. In this article, we propose “religion and urbanity” as a method to overcome such limitations. Focusing on what we claim to be a reciprocal formation, the study of the entangled history of religious change and the development of religions on the one hand and of u…
A new approach to a data ontology for the qualitative assessment of funerary spaces
Burials have long been one of the most important sources of archaeology, especially when studying past social practices and structure. Unlike archaeological finds from settlements, objects from graves can be assumed to have been placed there for a certain purpose. The same logic holds true for where these object were placed: We must also understand the (ritual) acts of deposition and construction as intentional practice that moves the spatial con…
United Professionally beyond Death
The assumption that graves were located outside the city or the so-called pomerium disperses when taking a closer look at the urban complexity as well as the dynamic fluidity of territorial and sacred boundaries. The study of urban deathscapes, analysed with the integrative research approach of Religious Ancient Placemaking, unfolds that due to urban growth and the accompanying diversification and densification, lived realities, which are crucial…
Making Place in the Ancient City
This special issue explores the potential application of one of the classic — but in our view still underappreciated — concepts of urban studies, namely place-making, as a lens to better understand the very diverse and highly complex interwoven layers of meaning invested in a specific form of settlement characterized by density and diversity, namely the city. ‘Owning’ a particular place in the city was an essential factor in identifying with the …
Introduction to ‘Beneath the Surface
The Heterarchy of the Roman Galli
Aim of this paper is to describe the strategies that a specific type of Roman priests, namely the galli who worshipped the goddess Mater Magna, used to enhance their own religious authority. By doing so, they were transcending a state-given political hierarchy and a long established social normativity, namely the masculine hegemony of the ancient Roman society. More generally, temporary priestly offices were highly political: every Roman statesma…
Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)