Objects with Attitude
Biographical Facts and Fallacies in the Study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Warrior Graves
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5793089 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James Whitley (0000-0001-9645-0505, Cardiff University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2002 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 217-232 |
| Data de publicação | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774302000112 |
| OpenAlex | W2111860583 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 65 |
| Referências citadas | 52 |
Aegean prehistory still has to deal with the legacy of 'Homeric archaeology'. One of these legacies is the 'warrior grave', or practice of burying individuals (men?) with weapons which we find both in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in the Aegean. This article suggests that the differences between the 'weapon burial rituals' in these two periods can tell us much about the kind of social and cultural changes that took place across the Bronze Age/Iron Age 'divide' of c. 1100 BC. In neither period, however, can items deposited in 'warrior graves' be seen as straightforward biographical facts that tell us what the individual did and suffered in life. Rather, the pattern of grave goods should be seen as a metaphor for a particular kind of identity and ideal. It is only in the Early Iron Age that this identity begins to correspond to the concept of the 'hero' as described in the Iliad. One means towards our better understanding of this new identity is to follow up work in anthropology on the biography of objects. It is argued that the 'life cycle' of 'entangled objects', a cycle which ends in deposition in a grave, provides us with indispensable clues about the nature of new social identities in Early Iron Age Greece
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Bronze · Bronze Age · Grave goods · HERO · Identity (music · Iron Age · Literature · Metaphor · Period (music · Prehistory · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
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Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World
The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy
The Origins of Money in the Iron Age Mediterranean World
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
The Early Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
The Early Roman Empire
Law and Economic Institutions
Classical Greece
Early Iron Age Greece
Early Rome and Italy
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor
Household and Gender
The Late Republic
Archaic Greece
The Early Roman Empire
Classical Greece
The Transition to Late Antiquity
Classical Greece
The Persian Near East
A skewed balance
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The Cambridge Guide to Homer
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
Stable isotope analysis of the dietary habits of a Greek community in Archaic Syracuse (Sicily)
The humans of ancient Hermione
Death and Burial in the Age of the Cypriot City-Kingdoms
Ritualizing Helmets – Symbolic Protocol of the Iron Age in Dolenjska
Peelhill Farm
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Harm’s Way
Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age
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Wealth and Status in Iron Age Knossos
Heirlooms Under-‘Cover’
The Terracotta Animal Figurines From Despotiko
The ‘Sword Bearers’
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Celebrating Death at the Sanctuary of Orthia
Martial Minoans? War as Social Process, Practice and Event in Bronze Age Crete
The Organisation and Practice of Metal Smithing in Later Bronze Age Europe
The Spirit of the Sword and Spear
Homer's Entangled Objects
Grave goods in early medieval burials
Archaeological cross dating
Masculinities and Militarization at Hasanlu, Iran
Athenian Eye Cups in Context
What's in a Vessel's Name? A Relational Text-Object Approach to the Uses of Mesopotamian Pottery
The Dipylon Mistress
Bone Objects as Offerings of Animal Bodies in Archaic Greek Sanctuaries
Connecting with corpse and tomb
Martial arts and materiality
Reinvigorating object biography
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Gristhorpe Man
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Minoan stone vases.
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The cultural biography of things
Feminism and anthropology
An ethnography of the Neolithic
The Social Life of Things
Introduction
Homer and the Iron Age
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Inalienable Possessions
The cultural biography of objects
Entangled objects
Social Diversity in Dark Age Greece
Later Aegean Bronze Swords
Beyond the Grave
Biographical Objects
Metaphor and Material Culture
| Obras citantes distintas | 65 |
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| Citações por ano | 3,1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
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