The TCM Project: Studies and Reflections on (Phoenician) "Identity"

The TCM project, born in the CNR from the collaboration between Tatiana Pedrazzi and me, aims to investigate the phenomena and processes of cultural interactions and "identity" construction through the presentation of various case studies concerned with the communities of the ancient Levant, including the Phoenicians who settled in the western Mediterranean at the beginning of the first millennium BCE. The research also has the objective - which is by no means secondary - of considering the methodological tools that might be used to develop such a study, especially from a terminological point of view (as in the case of the word/concept "identity").