EAN: 9783447105071

SANCTUARIES AND THE POWER OF CONSUMPTION GEBUNDEN

In the 6th and early 5th centuries BC  the western Mediterranean formed a hub for trade and
transactions  and Greeks  Phoenicians  and Etruscans were the main actors. As people moved 
their knowledge  religions  technologies  and fashions moved as well. The migration of people 
ideas and goods connected diverse ethnic groups in the Mediterranean region either directly or
indirectly. In this shared world  the sacred zones of sanctuaries and places of worship
functioned as contact zones of different cultural and ethnic elites under the 'protection of
the altar'. The general aim of the Innsbruck conference was - and the present volume continues
to pursue this objective - to study western Mediterranean sanctuaries and cult places as arenas
of far-reaching networking and the formation of elites  focusing on the power of consumption
and the consumption of power. This focus is as much the program as the main question of this
volume: Did intercultural entanglements or the 'settings' and 'resettings' of privileges  i.e.
the appropriation of goods and technologies of foreign cultures  serve to form and sustain
local power claims? The proceedings contain contributions of renowned experts as well as
promising young researchers. The papers cover a wide range of different areas of the
Mediterranean world from Sicily to southern and Tyrrhenian Italy to the Iberian Peninsula. Most
of the sites and excavation results are presented here for the first time  particularly under
the specific approach of the conference. This comparative perspective enables a new overall
view of western Mediterranean sanctuaries.

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