Ritual Roots of Memory (About Things)

• Authors: Kamil Karski

Title variants

PL

Rytualne źródła pamięci (o rzeczy)

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is a presentation of possible interpretations of the ritual of salutatio, as well as function and cultural connotations of ancestral funerary portraits (imagines) in ancient Rome. For this purpose, a number of research theories related to memory studies, hermeneutical analyses and performativity of things are discussed. In light of these theories it is possible to attempt an interpretation of salutatio and imagines as sources for constructing identity and memory of the Roman community

Keywords

EN

memory studies; hermeneutics; biography of things; ritual; salutatio

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego. Muzeum Okręgowe w Rzeszowie
• Journal: Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 365–392

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Kamil Karski

• Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów, Moniuszki 10 St., 35-015 Rzeszów, Poland