{"product_id":"religion-and-the-making-of-roman-africa-votive-stelae-traditions-and-empire-hardback-9781107020184","title":"Religion and the Making of Roman Africa; Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire (Hardback) 9781107020184","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReligion and the Making of Roman Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVotive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDecolonizes Roman provincial archaeologies and histories by showing how empire reshaped rites related to child sacrifice in Roman Africa.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew M. McCarty (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107020184, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e482 pages, 32 b\/w illus.  46 colour illus.  13 maps\u003cbr\u003e25 x 17.6 x 3.1 cm, 0.99 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Its value lies … in challenging previous interpretative frameworks and providing a host of novel approaches - and it is this field in which [the author] excels. Religion and the Making of Roman Africa deserves to be widely read not only by specialists on the archaeology of Northern Africa and the history of religion, but by Roman archaeologists more generally.' Maximilian Rönnberg, Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Colonial Histories: 1. Colonial traditions\u003cbr\u003e 2. Historicizing stelae and sanctuaries\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Themes in the Making of Hegemony: 3. Making Africa with Punic signs\u003cbr\u003e 4. Making a God\u003cbr\u003e 5. Making sanctuary communities\u003cbr\u003e 6. Making children subjects of empire\u003cbr\u003e 7. Making offerings\u003cbr\u003e 8. Remaking spaces and societies\u003cbr\u003e 9. Making empire: signs, stelae, and traditions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. Dating stele-sanctuaries\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Concordance of ancient\/modern place names\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52507278835992,"sku":"9781107020184","price":96.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781107020184i.jpg?v=1786443454","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/religion-and-the-making-of-roman-africa-votive-stelae-traditions-and-empire-hardback-9781107020184","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}