Identity
The notion of identity in this article is shaped through social class hierarchy and through ones cultural background. This revolves around the idea of what individuals were about in regard to their work life, their living space, their family and what they intrinsically identify with. This article spends a third of its depth talking about current trends in history and finds itself stuck on the idea of romanization. The author has good arguments on identity however his focus bounces off of a lot of different aspects with out clearly explaining all of them. What he does creates the sense that his ideas are fact rather than analyzing any other possibilities. The author does create a format to this article. However, the manner in which …show more content…
The author creates a good dialogue between the wealth and status of individuals through the things that they produced. In class we talk a lot about the afterlife and the means by which people to preserve their legacy. This is seen through funerary inscriptions and monuments that show the impact of commemoration. We see that people define themselves all throughout their lives with architecture, religious objects, and structures even after their death. By doing so they are creating an identity for themselves and for the culture in which they live in. This aspect gives people the opportunity to look back and reflect on the life that they lived. The distinctiveness creates an understanding of what people want to communicate and it reveals information about individuals or even families that become commemorated. Physical objects such as sarcophaguses, tombs, and even cemeteries give evidence and evoke a relationship for how people want to define …show more content…
Some of these aspects are true but the author does not discuss the idea very well. He uses graphs to show the relative frequencies of these groups in the multiple works that he has read. What he has found is that race and gender haven 't really been touched upon as much in terms of identity. There is an issue with the way formats this. After the article mentions this topic it immediately abandons and forgets about it. This lack of elaboration on something that is not talked about as much is bothersome. Ideas of race and gender are facets that affect how people just perceive other people. Ethnicity, class status, and gender do not justify how important or influential people were. The article should have articulated information about these categories rather than explained what past historians have documented. I believe at the time that ethnicity is less visible than other types of occupational identity and association and this kind of ideology should have appeared in the article. The article makes a good point when stating that the elite dominate most of the material identity of what remains. This is a good point because infrastructure, murals, possessions, and a sense of style have lasted for so
The notion of identity in this article is shaped through social class hierarchy and through ones cultural background. This revolves around the idea of what individuals were about in regard to their work life, their living space, their family and what they intrinsically identify with. This article spends a third of its depth talking about current trends in history and finds itself stuck on the idea of romanization. The author has good arguments on identity however his focus bounces off of a lot of different aspects with out clearly explaining all of them. What he does creates the sense that his ideas are fact rather than analyzing any other possibilities. The author does create a format to this article. However, the manner in which …show more content…
The author creates a good dialogue between the wealth and status of individuals through the things that they produced. In class we talk a lot about the afterlife and the means by which people to preserve their legacy. This is seen through funerary inscriptions and monuments that show the impact of commemoration. We see that people define themselves all throughout their lives with architecture, religious objects, and structures even after their death. By doing so they are creating an identity for themselves and for the culture in which they live in. This aspect gives people the opportunity to look back and reflect on the life that they lived. The distinctiveness creates an understanding of what people want to communicate and it reveals information about individuals or even families that become commemorated. Physical objects such as sarcophaguses, tombs, and even cemeteries give evidence and evoke a relationship for how people want to define …show more content…
Some of these aspects are true but the author does not discuss the idea very well. He uses graphs to show the relative frequencies of these groups in the multiple works that he has read. What he has found is that race and gender haven 't really been touched upon as much in terms of identity. There is an issue with the way formats this. After the article mentions this topic it immediately abandons and forgets about it. This lack of elaboration on something that is not talked about as much is bothersome. Ideas of race and gender are facets that affect how people just perceive other people. Ethnicity, class status, and gender do not justify how important or influential people were. The article should have articulated information about these categories rather than explained what past historians have documented. I believe at the time that ethnicity is less visible than other types of occupational identity and association and this kind of ideology should have appeared in the article. The article makes a good point when stating that the elite dominate most of the material identity of what remains. This is a good point because infrastructure, murals, possessions, and a sense of style have lasted for so