Necessary comparisons: A post-colonial approach to religious syncretism in the roman provinces

World Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 324-338

  Webster, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Comparison; Discourse; Post colonialism; Romano celtic; Syncretism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042297035     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1997.9980351     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Barrett, J C. 1988. Fields of discourse: reconstituting a social archaeology. Critique of Anthropology, 7(3): 5-16.
2. Barrett, J. C. 1989. Afterword: render unto Caesar. In Barbarians and Romans in North-West Europe (eds J. C. Barrett, A.P. Fitzpatrick and L. Macinnes). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 471, pp. 235-41.
3. Barrett, J. C. forthcoming. Romanization: a critical comment. In Dialogues in Imperialism (ed. D. Mattingly). Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series.
4. Barrett, J. C. and Foster, S. M. 1993. Passing the time in Iron Age Scotland. In Scottish Archaeology: New Perceptions (eds E. W. Hanson and E. A. Slater). Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, pp. 44-56.
5. Bartel, B. 1985. Comparative historical archaeology and archaeological theory. In Comparative Studies in the Archaeology of Colonialism (ed. S.L. Dyson). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 233, pp. 8-33.
6. Collingwood, R. G. and Wright R. P. 1965. Roman Inscriptions of Britain [RIB] Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
7. Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J. 1992. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
8. Craib, I.1992. Anthony Giddens. London: Routledge.
9. CSIR (Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Drinkwater, J. and Vertet, H. 1992. ‘Opportunity’ or ‘opposition’ in Roman Gaul? In Current Research on the Romanization of the Western Provinces (eds M. Wood and F. Queiroga). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 575, pp. 25-8.
11. Eagleton, T. 1993. Deconstruction and human rights. In Freedom and Interpretation. The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1992 (ed. B. Johnson). New York: Basic Books, pp. 145-70.
12. Fishwick, D. 1987. The Imperial Cult in the Latin West. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
13. Foucault, M. 1972. The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Harper Colophon.
14. Freeman, P. 1996. British imperialism and the Roman Empire. In Roman Imperialism: Post-Colonial Perspectives (eds J. Webster and N. Cooper). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs 3, pp. 19-34.
15. Giddens, A. 1984. The Constitution of Society. Oxford: Polity Press.
16. Green, M. 1986. The Gods of the Celts. Gloucester: Alan Sutton.
17. Green, M. 1989. Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art. London: Routledge.
18. Green, M. 1995. Celtic Goddesses. London: British Museum Press.
19. Hall, M. 1992. Small things and the mobile conflictual fusion of power, fear, and desire. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology, Essays in Honor of James Deetz (eds A. E. Yentsch and M. C. Beaudry). Boston, Mass.: C.R.C. Press, pp. 373-99.
20. Henig, M. 1984. Religion in Roman Britain. London: Batsford.
21. Hingley, R. 1993. Attitudes to Roman imperialism. In Proceedings of the First Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (ed. E. Scott). Oxford: Avebury Press, pp. 23-7.
22. Hingley, R. 1995. Britannia, origin myths and the British Empire. In Proceedings of the Fourth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (eds S. Cottam, D. Dungworth, S. Scott, and J. Taylor). Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 11-23.
23. Hingley, R. 1996. The ‘legacy’ of Rome: the rise, decline and fall of Romanization. In Roman Imperialism: Post-Colonial Perspectives (eds J. Webster and N. Cooper). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs 3, pp. 35-48.
24. Hodder, I.1991. Reading the Past (2nd edn). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
25. Kellogg, S. 1992. Hegemony out of conquest: the first two centuries of Spanish rule in central Mexico. Radical History Review, 53:28-46.
26. Mattingly, D. 1996. From one colonialism to another. In Roman Imperialism: Post-Colonial Perspectives (eds J. Webster and N. Cooper). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs 3, pp. 49-69.
27. Mattingly, D. (ed.) forthcoming. Dialogues in Imperialism. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series.
28. Mills, S. 1991. Discourses of Difference. An analysis of women’s travel writing and colonialism. London: Routledge.
29. Price, S. R. F. 1984. Rituals and Power. The Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Rowe, W. and Schelling, V. 1991. Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America. London: Verso.
31. Sahlins, M. 1985. Islands of History. London: Tavistock.
32. Salomon, F. 1987. Ancestor cults and resistance to the state in Arequipa, ca 1748-54. In Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World 18th to 20th Centuries (ed. S. Stern). Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 148-65.
33. Shaw, R. and Stewart, C. 1994. Introduction: problematizing syncretism. In Syncretism/Antisyncretism (eds C. Stewart and R. Shaw). London: Routledge, pp. 1-26.
34. Stern, S. 1982. Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
35. Thomas, N. 1994. Colonialism’s Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. London: Polity Press.
36. Vertet, H. 1984. Religion populaire et rapport au pouvoir d’après les statuettes en argile sous l’empire romain. In Archéologie et rapports sociaux en Gaule (ed. A. Daubigney). Paris: CNRS, pp. 72-122.
37. Webster, G. 1986. What the Britons required from the gods as seen through the pairing of Roman and Celtic deities and the character of votive offerings. In Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire (eds M. Henig and A. King). Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 8, pp. 57-64.
38. Webster, J. 1995. Translation and subjection: Interpretatio and the Celtic Gods. In Different Iron Ages Studies on the Iron Age in Temperate Europe (eds J. D. Hill and C. Cumberpatch). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 602, pp. 170-83.
39. Webster, J. 1996. Roman imperialism and the post-imperial age. In Roman Imperialism: PostColonial Perspectives (eds J. Webster and N. Cooper). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs 3, pp. 1-18.
40. Webster, J. 1996a. Ethnographic barbarity: colonial discourse and ‘Celtic warrior societies’. In Roman Imperialism: Post-Colonial Perspectives (eds J. Webster and N. Cooper). Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs 3, pp. 111-23.
41. Webster, J. forthcoming. A negotiated syncretism: readings on the development of Roman-Celtic religion. In Dialogues in Imperialism (ed. D. Mattingly). Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series.
42. Webster, J. and Cooper, N. (eds) 1996. Roman Imperialism: Post-Colonial Perspectives. Leicester: Leicester Archaeology Monographs.
43. Whittacker, C. R. forthcoming. Imperialism and culture: the Roman initiative. In Dialogues in Imperialism (ed. D. Mattingly). Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series.
44. Yentsch, A. E. and Beaudry, M. C. 1992. An introduction. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology, Essays in Honor of James Deetz (eds A. E. Yentsch and M. C. Beaudry). Boston, Mass.: C.R.C. Press, pp. 3-21.