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Michael Dietler
Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Associated faculty, Department of Classics; affiliate, Program on the Ancient Mediterranean World
Area of Study
Department of Anthropology
Michael Dietler
Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Associated faculty, Department of Classics; affiliate, Program on the Ancient Mediterranean WorldProfessor Dietler has conducted archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research projects in Europe and Africa. In addition to his work on alcohol, food, and feasting, a major theoretical focus has been colonialism, and he has been engaged for nearly 30 years in archaeological research in Mediterranean France on the indigenous “Celtic” societies of the region and their colonial encounters with Etruscans, Greeks and Romans during the first millennium BC, including long-term excavations at the port settlement of Lattes in Languedoc.
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