Happily Connected? The Interconnectivity Paradigm and the Debate About the Ancient Economy

Jan Paul Crielaard ()
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Jan Paul Crielaard: VU University

Chapter Chapter 10 in The Critique of Archaeological Economy, 2021, pp 183-204 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This contribution deals with the recent paradigm shift in thinking about Mediterranean connectedness and how this affected prevalent ideas about the functioning of the ancient economy. It sketches the intellectual, cultural and academic contexts in which connectivity thinking has developed over the last 50 years and discusses some of its basic tenets, notably the notion of unlimited, Mediterranean-wide connectedness and individual economic agency. A blind spot in the current vision of a connected Mediterranean concerns the evidence of regional differentiality in connectivity and the ways and means that connectedness and networks were manipulated to create or reinforce power relations—a point which is illustrated with the help of a long-term study of seaborne and terrestrial connections in the southern part of the Greek island of Euboia.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72539-6_10

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