Book contents
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Mediterranean Introductions
- Insularity and Connectivity
- Mobility, Migration and Colonisation
- Hybridisation and Cultural Encounters
- Materiality, Memory and Identity
- Community and Household
- Life and Death
- 30 Beyond the General and the Particular: Rethinking Death, Memory and Belonging in Early Bronze Age Crete
- 31 From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First: Understanding the Bronze Age Argaric Lifecourse in the Mediterranean ‘Far West’
- 32 Crossing Borders: Death and Life in Second Millennium BC Southern Iberia and North Africa
- 33 An Entangled Past: Island Interactions, Mortuary Practices and the Negotiation of Identities on Early Iron Age Cyprus
- 34 The Violence of Symbols: Ideologies, Identity, and Cultural Interaction in Central Italian Cemeteries
- Ritual and Ideology
- Index
34 - The Violence of Symbols: Ideologies, Identity, and Cultural Interaction in Central Italian Cemeteries
from Life and Death
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
Book contents
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Mediterranean Introductions
- Insularity and Connectivity
- Mobility, Migration and Colonisation
- Hybridisation and Cultural Encounters
- Materiality, Memory and Identity
- Community and Household
- Life and Death
- 30 Beyond the General and the Particular: Rethinking Death, Memory and Belonging in Early Bronze Age Crete
- 31 From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First: Understanding the Bronze Age Argaric Lifecourse in the Mediterranean ‘Far West’
- 32 Crossing Borders: Death and Life in Second Millennium BC Southern Iberia and North Africa
- 33 An Entangled Past: Island Interactions, Mortuary Practices and the Negotiation of Identities on Early Iron Age Cyprus
- 34 The Violence of Symbols: Ideologies, Identity, and Cultural Interaction in Central Italian Cemeteries
- Ritual and Ideology
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines cemeteries to investigate the complex dynamics of ethnogenesis and the construction of collective identity and elite group ideologies in central Italy during the Early Iron Age (EIA) and the so-called Orientalizing period. It overviews dynamics of interaction between Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians, and other people from the East in the Tyrrhenian context. The chapter investigates the notion of symbolic violence as proposed by Bourdieu and Godelier as a central aspect of collective group as well as individual strategies, and of power rituals in the EIA and the Orientalizing period in Etruria. As the funerary ideology of the Etruscan EIA recalls a picture of sociopolitical dialectics between collective trends and specific group or individual features and between conservatism and innovation in constant interplay with the criteria of status, gender, and age, there is no shortage of ambiguities and differences. Hut-shaped urns are of crucial importance for understanding the socio-ritual and gender dialectics, even if they are relatively uncommon.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015