FAUCHON-CLAUDON Claire and LE GUENNEC Marie-Adeline (dir.).
Hospitality and regulation of otherness in Mediterranean antiquity.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25711 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 378 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Bordeaux, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356134769 |
This book is the result of an international conference organized in Lyon (ENS de Lyon, U. Lumière Lyon 2 and Jean Moulin Lyon 3) on September 5, 6 and 7, 2018, as part of a research program developed by the editors since 2015 at the ENS de Lyon (collective project HospitAm, Hospitalities in Mediterranean Antiquity). It offers, in twenty contributions, a global look at a cultural practice shared by the different civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean basin: hospitality.
Hospitality is defined as a non-paid welcome, including room and board, and often occurring in the context of mobility. But much more than a recourse for the traveler in search of accommodation, hospitality constituted in Mediterranean Antiquity a social relationship in its own right, framing relationships with the "other", which ancient societies commonly associated with the figure of the stranger. It is therefore the fundamental role of hospitality in the "test of otherness" caused by "temporarily or permanently abandoned sedentary lifestyle" (A. Gotman) that this book intends to analyze, from Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC to Italy in Late Antiquity.
To this end, this book proposes to submit the study of hospitality to the concept of regulation. Borrowed from the social sciences, regulation invites us to think of this form of reception as a mechanism allowing the societies of the ancient Mediterranean basin to manage the integration, distancing or rejection of an individual or a non-native group, to reestablish the balance that their arrival had contributed to disturbing. Four axes of study run through our investigation: the analysis of the laws, codes and rules of ancient hospitality; the way in which these devices are put into practice by the actors, welcomed as hosts; the attempts at negotiation and circumvention, to which they may have been subjected; finally, the regulation of and by hospitality in its materiality. Comparative openings make it possible to extend to other civilizational contexts the study of this function of regulation of otherness, which seems to be able to be considered as an invariant of human hospitality.
Hospitality is defined as a non-paid welcome, including room and board, and often occurring in the context of mobility. But much more than a recourse for the traveler in search of accommodation, hospitality constituted in Mediterranean Antiquity a social relationship in its own right, framing relationships with the "other", which ancient societies commonly associated with the figure of the stranger. It is therefore the fundamental role of hospitality in the "test of otherness" caused by "temporarily or permanently abandoned sedentary lifestyle" (A. Gotman) that this book intends to analyze, from Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC to Italy in Late Antiquity.
To this end, this book proposes to submit the study of hospitality to the concept of regulation. Borrowed from the social sciences, regulation invites us to think of this form of reception as a mechanism allowing the societies of the ancient Mediterranean basin to manage the integration, distancing or rejection of an individual or a non-native group, to reestablish the balance that their arrival had contributed to disturbing. Four axes of study run through our investigation: the analysis of the laws, codes and rules of ancient hospitality; the way in which these devices are put into practice by the actors, welcomed as hosts; the attempts at negotiation and circumvention, to which they may have been subjected; finally, the regulation of and by hospitality in its materiality. Comparative openings make it possible to extend to other civilizational contexts the study of this function of regulation of otherness, which seems to be able to be considered as an invariant of human hospitality.
Hospitality is defined as a non-paid welcome, including room and board, and often occurring in the context of mobility. But much more than a recourse for the traveler in search of accommodation, hospitality constituted in Mediterranean Antiquity a social relationship in its own right, framing relationships with the "other", which ancient societies commonly associated with the figure of the stranger. It is therefore the fundamental role of hospitality in the "test of otherness" caused by "temporarily or permanently abandoned sedentary lifestyle" (A. Gotman) that this book intends to analyze, from Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC to Italy in Late Antiquity.
To this end, this book proposes to submit the study of hospitality to the concept of regulation. Borrowed from the social sciences, regulation invites us to think of this form of reception as a mechanism allowing the societies of the ancient Mediterranean basin to manage the integration, distancing or rejection of an individual or a non-native group, to reestablish the balance that their arrival had contributed to disturbing. Four axes of study run through our investigation: the analysis of the laws, codes and rules of ancient hospitality; the way in which these devices are put into practice by the actors, welcomed as hosts; the attempts at negotiation and circumvention, to which they may have been subjected; finally, the regulation of and by hospitality in its materiality. Comparative openings make it possible to extend to other civilizational contexts the study of this function of regulation of otherness, which seems to be able to be considered as an invariant of human hospitality.