Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 145.2020

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 145.2020

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 145.2020

Untertitel:: ZfE = Journal of social and cultural anthropology : JSCA

Weitere Titel:: ZfE

Herausgebendes Organ:: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie; Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte

Erscheinungsort:: Berlin

Verlag:: Reimer

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2020

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 145, 2020, Heft 2, Special Issue: Rethinking the Mediterranean

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Titel:: ‘Knitting Together the Unconjoined’: Mediterranean Connectivity Revisited

Sonstige Person:: Horden, Peregrine

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

ZfE | JSCA 145 (2020) 197–218 © 2021 Dietrich Reimer Verlag ‘Knitting Together the Unconjoined’: Mediterranean Connectivity Revisited Peregrine Horden All Souls College, Oxford, UK Abstract. Te ancient geographer Strabo imaged Rome’s conquest of a Mediterranean-wide empire as a ‘knitting together’ of ‘unconjoined’ regions – unconjoined because of a lack of harbours or other natural defciencies. Tis article takes the image seriously as a point of entry into the vexed topic of connectivity, in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. In current global history, connectivity has been found everywhere but is seldom precisely defned. Te article proposes a return to the type of defnition ofered in P. Horden and N. Purcell’s Te Corrupting Sea (2000), a defnition according to which connectivity is in- separable from microregional ecology. After reviewing the intellectual origins and ramifcations of that defnition, the article critically surveys alternative terminologies that have emerged since 2000, and fnds them mostly unhelpful as guides to the nature of Mediterranean contacts and communications. It next examines recent work on recovering and mapping Roman movements of people and goods as a modern version of Strabo, and as suggestive of the directions the subject may proftably take in future. Finally, it ofers two examples showing, respectively, the complexities of connectivity within the Mediterranean region (coral fshing) and the diferences in pattern and chronology between connectivity around the sea and connectivity across Asia (bubonic plague). [Connectivity; communications; Rome; Mediterranean; fshing; plague] Te Romans, also, took over many peoples who were naturally savage owing to the regions they inhabited, because those regions were either rocky or without harbours or cold or for some other reason ill-suited to habitation… and thus they knitted together with each other many who had otherwise been unconjoined. (Strabo, Ge- ography, 2.5.26, ed. Jones and Sittlington 2014:486–487) 1 Defnitions and Origins Te ancient geographer Strabo gives us a defnition of a metaphorical kind: connectivity as a knitting together of small previously isolated populations in unpromising environ- ments, which he conceives in terms of terrain, climate, and lack of natural harbours. He also gives us an origin of connectivity, in imperial power. Tis knitting together of ecologies, if we take his metaphor seriously, is directed yet complex, as complex as im- perial power itself, a dense pattern of links rather than the throwing of a lifeline from capital city to desolate region.

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