Roman Frontier Studies Relativism and the Frontiers of Empire

This volume explores Rome’s frontiers through the lens of cultural relativism, integrating post-colonial and positional approaches. It emphasizes the scholar’s standpoint in shaping knowledge and recontextualizes frontier studies within broader cultural frameworks. Relativism and the Frontiers of Empire captures a moment in the development of agendas in the study of Rome’s frontiers, whilst highlighting the legacy of a classic anthropological concept. The volume adopts the theme of cultural relativism as an umbrella term, which allows opening to a range of post-colonial, positional and relational approaches that rely on contextualising frontiers within their cultural frameworks and recognising the significance of the standpoint of the scholar in production of knowledge; the two key tenets of anthropological cultural relativism.

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