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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
1. What did objects do in the Roman world? Beyond representation
Part 1: Representation Reconsidered
2. Writing power. The material culture of literacy as representation and practice
3. Soldiers in life and death. Material culture, the military, and mortality
4. Gallo-Belgic wares. Objects in motion in the early Roman northwest
5. Discussion. Reflections on the representational use of artefact evidence
Part 2: Standardisation
6. Standard time. Typologies in Roman antiquity
7. Different similarities or similar differences? Thoughts on koine, oligopoly and regionalism
8. Rethinking standardisation through late antique Sagalassos ceramic production. Tradition, improvisation and fluidity
9. Discussion. Material standards
Part 3: Matter
10. Finding the material in ‘material culture’. Form and matter in Roman concrete
11. Design, function and everyday social practice. Artefacts and Roman social history
12. Object ontology and cultural taxonomies. Examining the agency of style, material and objects in classification through Egyptian material culture in Pompeii and Rome
13. Discussion. Object-scapes. Towards a material constitution of Romanness?
Part 4: Reflections
14. On theory-building in Roman archaeology. The potential for new approaches to materiality and practice
15. Roman things and Roman people. A cultural ecology of the Roman world
Bibliography
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