Steel, Louise (2018) Shifting Relations in Bronze Age Gaza: An Investigation into Egyptianizing Practices and Cultural Hybridity in the Southern Levant During the Late Bronze Age. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 20. ISSN 1944-2815
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Abstract
This article explores how material culture is used to shape, mediate and transform social relations within contact zones. The aim is to highlight cultural hybridity, namely the material expression of new social practices within a colonial third space. It focuses on the Gaza region of the southern Levant during the later second millennium BC, a cosmopolitan period, illustrated by large-scale movement of goods, raw materials and exotic luxuries over vast distances around the East Mediterranean resulting in cultural connectivity. The Late Bronze Age in the Gaza region is also characterized by Egyptian colonial activity. Consequently, this article examines material evidence for the development of new social practices in the region and in particular the adoption of Egyptian(izing) exotica in the creation and mediation of new hybrid identities. Specifically, it explores the social life of objects at two important Late Bronze Age sites in the region: el-Moghraqa and Deir el-Balah
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hybridity, middle ground, material culture, Egyptianizing, funerary cones, coffins |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Divisions: | Institutes and Academies > Institute of Education and Humanities > Academic Discipline: Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Louise Steel |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2018 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2023 11:39 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/935 |
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