RT Book
T1 Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire
A1 McCarty, Matthew M.
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1908553863
AB This book fundamentally rewrites the cultural and religious history of North Africa under the Roman Empire, focalized through rituals related to child sacrifice and the carved-stone monuments associated with such offerings. Earlier colonial archaeologies have stressed the failure of the empire to 'Romanize' Indigenous and Punic settler populations, mobilizing inscriptions and sculpture to mirror and explain modern European colonial failures as the result of ethnic African permanence. Instead, this book uses postcolonial theory, pragmatic semiotics, material epistemologies, and relational ontologies to develop a new account of how Roman hegemony transformed and was reproduced through signifying practices in even a seemingly traditional, 'un-Roman' rite such as child sacrifice. In doing so, the book offers a model for understanding the Roman Empire, the peoples who lived across its provinces, and their material worlds.
AB "The first English-language account of religious change in Roman North Africa, challenging 150 years of colonial scholarship and offering new paths forward for studying and decolonizing the archaeology and history of Roman provinces"-- Provided by publisher
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Oct 2024). - Revision of the author's thesis (PhD, University of Oxford, 2010) under the title: Votive stelae, religion and cultural change in Africa Proconsularis and Numidia 200 BC-AD 300
CN BL2462
SN 978-1-139-09679-9
K1 BCE to c 500 CE
K1 ca. 1 bis ca. 500 n. Chr
K1 ca. 1000 v. Chr. bis Christi Geburt
K1 Rituals : Africa, North
K1 Romans : Africa, North
K1 Stele (Archaeology) : Africa, North
K1 Ritual : Africa, North
K1 Ancient history: to c 500 CE
K1 Antike
K1 Archäologie einer Periode / Region
K1 Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
K1 Colonialism & imperialism
K1 HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
K1 Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
K1 POL045000
K1 REL114000
K1 RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology
K1 Roman religion & mythology
K1 Römische Religion und Mythologie
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
K1 Rome : Religion
K1 Africa, North : History : To 647
K1 Africa, North : Religion
K1 Altes Rom
K1 Ancient Rome
K1 Nordafrika
K1 North Africa
K1 Hochschulschrift
DO 10.1017/9781139096799