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Catherine Elizabeth Pratt

C.Phil, Archaeology, UCLA 2012; M.A. Archaeology, UCLA 2011; B.A. Classical Archaeology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 2008.

Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: cepratt@ucla.edu

Subfield

Archaeology

Research Interests

Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age interaction between Near Eastern and Aegean cultures, focusing on post-colonial theoretical models and their application to prehistory.

Grants and Awards

2012 International Institute long-term Graduate Fieldwork Award; 2011-2012 Graduate Research Mentorship; 2011&2012 Summer Research Mentorship Award; 2011 Harry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Fellowship; 2008-2009 Chancellor's Prize-Summer Mentorship Award; Eunice and Luther Nims Scholarship

Advisors

Dr. Sarah Morris and Dr. John Papadopoulos

Conference Presentations

"Objects and Agents: Transnational Interaction Between Cretans and Phoenicians in the Early Iron Age". AIA General Meeting, January 2012.

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The Construction of Value

Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

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