Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva

Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva

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Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva

Corinna Riva [+-]
University College London
Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. From 2000-2005 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and served as temporary Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow in 2005-2006. Since 2002, she has been co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey (Marche, Italy). She is the author of The Urbanization of Etruria (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2010 Initially coined by art historians in the second half of the nineteenth century to denote an ambivalent artistic style and period, 'Orientalizing' has been invariably used to describe a phenomenon, a revolution, or a movement. Regional developments and innovations in the ancient Mediterranean have been explained by reference to an Orient, the metaphorical bazaar containing the artistic opulence and social sophistication that spread to the West and changed it. Debating Orientalization brings together papers presented at a symposium held in Oxford in 2002 to debate the theme of ancient Orientalization. The volume reassesses the concept of Orientalizing, questioning whether it is valid to interpret Mediterranean-wide processes of change in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages by the term Orientalization. Like the ancient Mediterranean itself, the list of contributors is multicultural, and their contributions multidisciplinary, combining various strands of archaeological and textual evidence with different methodological and theoretical approaches.

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Riva, Corinna . Dedication. Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. Oct 2006. ISBN 9781845538910. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20529. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20529. Oct 2006

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