"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...

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Main Author:	McCarty, Matthew M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2025
Subjects:	Geschichte Rituals / Africa, North Stele (Archaeology) / Africa, North Romans / Africa, North Ritual Religion Africa, North / Religion Rome / Religion Africa, North / History / To 647 Römisches Reich Nordafrika
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"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."
Item Description:	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
Physical Description:	xix, 460 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9781107020184