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- The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
- The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- One Surplus
- Two Needs/Wants (Matter): Villas in Central Italy
- Three Future (Practice): Silos and Granaries in Gaul and Iberia
- Four Knowledge (Assemblage): Houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Five Control (Flow): Warehouses in the Ports of Ostia and Portus
- Six Reproduction (Scale): Family, State, and Accumulation
- Seven Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Index
Six - Reproduction (Scale): Family, State, and Accumulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2020
- The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
- The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- One Surplus
- Two Needs/Wants (Matter): Villas in Central Italy
- Three Future (Practice): Silos and Granaries in Gaul and Iberia
- Four Knowledge (Assemblage): Houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Five Control (Flow): Warehouses in the Ports of Ostia and Portus
- Six Reproduction (Scale): Family, State, and Accumulation
- Seven Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6’s focus on reproduction returns to the schism between farmer (micro) and state (macro) that has plagued the archaeology of storage. The Roman empire, it argues, did not scale up as a pyramidal model, in which each level controls the previous one through simplification; instead, Roman storage was cast as family business regardless of scale, and articulated a kaleidoscope, in which certain shared concerns and models formed fickle joins between different worlds and their actors, without ever truly merging or subsuming them.
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- The Socio-Economics of Roman StorageAgriculture, Trade, and Family, pp. 158 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020