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Christopher Wood

M.A., Anthropology (Archaeology), University of California Santa Barbara;

B.A., Classics, San Francisco State University


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

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IDP/Classical Archaeology

Research Interests

Roman art and archaeology, ancient urbanism, GIS and 3D modeling, mortuary traditions, Imperial portraiture, Roman Egypt, and the marble and stone trade in antiquity.

Notes

Fieldwork: Pompeii

Grants and Awards

Bernard Goldman Scholarship, American Academy in Rome, Classical Summer School (2011)

Conference Presentations

"The Secret Life of Roman Luxury: Public vs. Private Space". Univ. of Michigan, Grad Student Conference: Too Much Is Never Enough: Luxury and Decadence in the Ancient World, 2009
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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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