This study investigates the effects that an encounter with a foreign object can have on local traditions. Notions of object agency and object biographies will be utilized to address what happens when people become entangled with new things: the new context can have an impact on the newly introduced object, and those newly introduced objects can similarly impact locals and their traditions. The Late Bronze Age southern Levantine site of Tel Burna will serve as a case study, where a number of imported Cypriot pithoi were found alongside locally produced pithoi. It will be demonstrated that in their new context, the Cypriot pithoi were given new meaning and function. At the same time, the imported pithoi played active roles in the local potters of Tel Burna making pithoi. However, the local pithoi resemble local storage jars, so while the potters mimicked the concept of the Cypriot pithoi, they did so according to local normative forms.

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对象传记、对象机构和当地社区对外国商品的遭遇和反应：以 LB Tel Burna 的 Pithoi 为例

这项研究调查了遇到异物可能对当地传统产生的影响。对象代理和对象传记的概念将用于解决当人们与新事物纠缠在一起时会发生什么：新的环境可能会对新引入的对象产生影响，而这些新引入的对象同样会影响当地人及其传统。特尔伯纳的黎凡特南部青铜时代晚期遗址将作为案例研究，在那里发现了许多进口的塞浦路斯皮托伊和当地生产的皮托伊。将会证明，在新的背景下，塞浦路斯的pithoi被赋予了新的意义和功能。与此同时，进口的 Pithoi 在 Tel Burna 当地陶工制作 Pithoi 的过程中发挥了积极作用。然而，当地的 Pithoi 类似于当地的储物罐，因此，虽然陶工模仿了塞浦路斯 Pithoi 的概念，但他们是根据当地的规范形式这样做的。