Religion and the Making of Roman Africa

Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire

Matthew M. McCarty (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

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Cambridge University Press
07 November 2024

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Colonialism & imperialism; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

This 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.

By: Matthew M. McCarty (University of British Columbia Vancouver)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 990g
ISBN: 9781107020184
ISBN 10: 1107020182
Pages: 482
Publication Date: 07 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew M. McCarty is Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. He has directed the Apulum Roman Villa Project and the Apulum Mithraeum III Project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for which he won the Mary White Prize from the Classical Association of Canada.