Forsaken Relics : Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times

Buono, Allessandro (EDT); Miniaci, Gianluca (EDT); Anguissola, Anna (EDT)

ISBN 13: 9798888571149

Verlag: Oxbow Books, 2024

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 47611858-n

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• Titel: Forsaken Relics : Practices and Rituals of Appropriating Abandoned Artifacts from Antiquity to Modern Times
• Verlag: Oxbow Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888571149
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Uses case studies to examine the social context and cultural and political management of appropriating abandoned objects and assets.

Forsaken Relics examines the intricate mechanisms of ritualistic appropriation of ruined and/or abandoned assets and artifacts. It explores how this process occurs in situations where there is legislation to regulate the appropriation of ownerless property, as well as in cases where such rules are either absent or contested, leading to disputes and conflicts.

Every society has developed its unique ways of managing the re-appropriation of ‘ownerless things’, such as places and houses abandoned after conflicts, crises, or natural disasters, forsaken cemeteries, tombs, and forgotten goods. These practices often involve the use of ritualistic methods to mask the intent to appropriate abandoned artifacts. The book aims to stimulate comparative analysis of this topic in both ancient and modern societies, profiling the identity of the ‘actors’ of appropriation, examining the definition of abandonment, and exploring the ritual aspects such as inventorying material, dedication to ancestors, and prayers to gods that legitimize the re-appropriation of places and goods classified as abandoned.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alessandro Buono is associate professor of early modern history at the University of Pisa. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship at the EHESS in Paris. His research focuses on the relationships between personal identity and ownership regimes in early modern Europe and the Spanish Empire.

Gianluca Miniaci is Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Honorary Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL - London, and Chercheur associé at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He is currently co-director of the archaeological mission at Zawyet Sultan (Menya, Egypt) and principal investigator for four large national projects. His main research interests focus on the social history of ancient Egypt, the dynamics of material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean between Egypt, the Levant, Aegean, and Nubia in the Middle Bronze Age, and the global and comparative history and archaeology.

Anna Anguissola is associate professor of Classical Archaeology and the director of the Plaster Casts and Antiquities Collection at the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on urban development, the history and techniques of ancient sculpture, and the relationship between Greek and Roman art. As a field archaeologist, she coordinates projects in Pompeii and in Hierapolis of Phrygia (Turkey).