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"Small finds--the stuff of everyday life--offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other 'mundane' artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities. By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places. Throughout, the authors strive to maintain a critical awareness of archaeological contexts and site formation processes to offer interpretations of past peoples and behaviours that most likely reflect the lived reality of the Romans. While the range of topics in this volume gives it wide appeal, scholars working with small finds, religion, dress, and life in the Northwest provinces will find it especially of interest. Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices grew out of a session at the 2014 Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference"--From publisher's website.

Roman provinces --- Material culture --- Personal belongings --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Provinces of Rome --- Antiquities --- Provinces --- History

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Some of our strongest, most lasting relationships are hidden in plain view-those we have with objects. What do our possessions do for us? And how do they do it? In The Promise of Things, Ruth Quibell explores what our possessions say about us- who we think we are, what we long for and struggle against. It invites us to think about how we use things, what makes them precious, and why we find it so hard to throw these objects away.

Personal belongings --- Transitional objects (Psychology) --- Attachment behavior. --- Psychological aspects. --- Attachment objects (Psychology) --- Objects, Transitional (Psychology) --- Solacing objects (Psychology) --- Transitional phenomena (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Attachment behavior --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Behavior, Attachment --- Developmental psychology --- Love

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What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses on the things that matter to these people, which quite often turn out to be material things – their house, the dog, their music, the Christmas decorations. These are the means by which they express who they have become, and relationships to objects turn out to be central to their relationships with other people – children, lovers, brothers and friends.

If this is a typical street in a modern city like London, then what kind of society is this? It’s not a community, nor a neighbourhood, nor is it a collection of isolated individuals. It isn’t dominated by the family. We assume that social life is corrupted by materialism, made superficial and individualistic by a surfeit of consumer goods, but this is misleading. If the street isn’t any of these things, then what is it?

This brilliant and revealing portrayal of a street in modern London, written by one the most prominent anthropologists, shows how much is to be gained when we stop lamenting what we think we used to be and focus instead on what we are now becoming. It reveals the forms by which ordinary people make sense of their lives, and the ways in which objects become our companions in the daily struggle to make life meaningful.

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Abu-Ghazaleh focuses on Palestinian cultural material artifacts and their connection with the preservation of cultural identity. The Palestinian participants were acutely aware of the potential instability of their diaspora, especially in the United States since 9/11. This study provides a perspective not generally presented in Western media of the Palestinian people striving for the peaceful preservation of their nationality through their cultural artifacts, and social identity practices. For Palestinians, material culture artifacts connect them to their homeland even as it is relentlessly re

Palestinian Americans --- Immigrants --- Ethnicity --- Material culture --- Personal belongings --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Palestinian Arab Americans --- Ethnology --- Palestinian Arabs --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Ethnic identity. --- Social life and customs. --- Maryland --- US-MD --- MD --- Ethnic relations.

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"Small finds--the stuff of everyday life--offer archaeologists a fascinating glimpse into the material lives of the ancient Romans. These objects hold great promise for unravelling the ins and outs of daily life, especially for the social groups, activities, and regions for which few written sources exist. Focusing on amulets, brooches, socks, hobnails, figurines, needles, and other 'mundane' artefacts, these 12 papers use small finds to reconstruct social lives and practices in the Roman Northwest provinces. Taking social life broadly, the various contributions offer insights into the everyday use of objects to express social identities, Roman religious practices in the provinces, and life in military communities. By integrating small finds from the Northwest provinces with material, iconographic, and textual evidence from the whole Roman empire, contributors seek to demystify Roman magic and Mithraic religion, discover the latest trends in ancient fashion (socks with sandals!), explore Roman interactions with Neolithic monuments, and explain unusual finds in unexpected places. Throughout, the authors strive to maintain a critical awareness of archaeological contexts and site formation processes to offer interpretations of past peoples and behaviours that most likely reflect the lived reality of the Romans. While the range of topics in this volume gives it wide appeal, scholars working with small finds, religion, dress, and life in the Northwest provinces will find it especially of interest. Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices grew out of a session at the 2014 Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference"--From publisher's website.

Roman provinces --- Material culture --- Personal belongings --- House furnishings --- Fashion --- Social archaeology --- Antiquities --- Provinces --- History --- Social life and customs --- Personal coaching --- Fashion shows --- Provinces romaines --- Culture matérielle --- Accompagnement (Psychologie) --- Ameublement --- Présentations de collections (Mode) --- Archéologie sociale --- Congresses. --- Study and teaching --- Pictorial works --- Exhibitions --- Antiquités --- Congrès --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Expositions --- Archaeology --- Provinces of Rome --- Style in dress --- Clothing and dress --- Home furnishings --- Household goods --- Home economics --- Interior decoration --- Belongings, Personal --- Bundles of personal belongings --- Effects, Personal --- Paraphernalia, Personal --- Personal effects --- Personal paraphernalia --- Personal possessions --- Possessions, Personal --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Methodology --- Equipment and supplies --- Conferences - Meetings --- Culture matérielle --- Présentations de collections (Mode) --- Archéologie sociale --- Antiquités --- Congrès