Identity and power : the transformation of Iron Age societies in Northeast Gaul /

This remarkable volume explores the transformation of Iron Age communities in northeast Gaul, giving special consideration to questions of social identity. It surveys the multi-dimensional levels of socio-political organisation, the cycles of centralisation and decentralisation, the origins of the L...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernández-Götz, Manuel.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2014.
Series:Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 21.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: defining frameworks
  • Towards an archaeology of identities
  • Sociopolitical organisation and ethnic identities in pre-Roman Gaul: levels and networks
  • Constructing communities: the middle Rhine-Moselle region in the late Hallstatt and early La Tène periods
  • From centralisation to decentralisation
  • The role of central places in the construction of collective identities
  • Negotiating power: aristocratic burials and local communities in the late La Tène period
  • Recognising diversity: identity, landscape and social complexity between Rhine and Meuse
  • The impact of 'Romanisation' on identity transformation.