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Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and public engagement project 'Being an Islander' Art and Identity of the Large Mediterranean Islands, implemented between 2019 and 2024 at the University of Cambridge. This project aimed to elucidate what defines island identity in the Mediterranean. It explored how insularity affects and shapes cultural identity by integrating transdisciplinary research methodologies, for example, by producing an awarded documentary on insularity and island identity, drawing on the principles of visual anthropology, social anthropology and environment studies. This volume is the culmination of the project's research strands, undertaken by our key research teams in Cambridge, Cyprus, Greece and Italy. It disseminates our research across our main project themes: insularity, connectivity, mobility, migration, island art and material culture production, hybridity and diachronicity, and provides cross-disciplinary arguments and suggestions on the future of island archaeology and associated disciplines. Contributions included suggest that the relationship between people, place and material culture is what reveals important aspects of island identity and reframe the concept of the islands as a dynamic interplay shaped by social and historical episodes, connectivity and mobility, rather than geography or political boundaries. The volume advocates that the complex histories of the Mediterranean islands can also be a story of connections. AUTHOR: Anastasia Christophilopoulou is the Senior Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge and a member of the D Caucus (Art and Archaeology) Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she also completed her PhD thesis in 2007. She currently leads the Being an Islander project, and her research focuses on Mediterranean and island archaeology, and archaeology and public engagement. Anastasia co-directs the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP). 20 colour, 15 b/w illustrations

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Author:   Anastasia Christophilopoulou
Publisher:   Casemate Publishers
Imprint:   Casemate Publishers
ISBN:  

9798888571514

Pages:   160
Publication Date:   15 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Acknowledgements  Summary  1. Understanding islands in the longue durée: stories of insularity, community, and maritime heritage from the Mediterranean  Anastasia Christophilopoulou 2. Big and Small Islands: Re-thinking Insularity in Classical Greece Christy Constantakopoulou  3. Roll up for the Mystery Tour: Islands of the Transition and their Contribution to ‘Western’ Civilization Louise A. Hitchcock, Aren Maeir & Laura Pisanu  4. Contextualising Cypriot writing in the Early Iron Age Aegean: questions about who, when and where Giorgos Bourogiannis  5. A Late Iron Age sword from Tamassos: biography of an exceptional object Julie Dawson, Susanna Pancaldo & Ema Bauzyte 6. Island metallurgy: a case study of two Early Bronze Age toggle pins from the Cypriot Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum Ema Bauzyte, Jana Mokrisova, Susanna Pancaldo  7. Insularity and Mediterranean networks in the collections of the National Museums of Cagliari from prehistory to the contemporary age Francesco Muscolino  8. Being an Islander in the 3rd millennium BC Small Cyclades in the central Aegean: connectivity, food networks and sustainability of resources…. Evi Margaritis, Michael J. Boyd. and Colin Renfrew 9. When our World became Christian: Crete and Cyprus during Late Antiquity  Georgios Deligiannakis, Salvatore Cosentino. 10. Conclusions: Mediterranean Rhapsody: of island histories and identities  Helen Dawson 

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Anastasia Christophilopoulou is the Senior Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge and a member of the D Caucus (Art and Archaeology) Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where she also completed her PhD thesis in 2007. She currently leads the Being an Islander project, and her research focuses on Mediterranean and island archaeology, and archaeology and public engagement. Anastasia co-directs the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP).

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