From the end of the third century BC on, the funerary culture of the Etruscan city of Chiusi saw the gradual disappearance of the most expensive containers and tombs. At the same time, there was first a dramatic increase in the number of such monuments, followed by an equally sharp decline in the first century BC. The qualitative development has traditionally been explained using sumptuary laws, which should have constrained funerary expenditure. However, a close examination of the local evidence reveals that this is not only unlikely, but also does not explain the quantitative development and why there was a social and cultural need to constrain these funerary objects in the first place. Using the concepts of distinction and habitus developed by Bourdieu, this paper analyses the developments in Chiusine funerary practice by focusing on social interactions within and between élites and non-élites. This gives both groups agency in a complex social, cultural and political process that caused the criteria for distinction to change, ultimately making funerary culture less important for status differentiation in the rapidly changing context of Hellenistic Italy.

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伊特鲁斯科-意大利社区的葬礼转型：希腊丘西的社会展示和紧缩

从公元前三世纪末开始，伊特鲁里亚城市丘西的丧葬文化见证了最昂贵的容器和墓葬的逐渐消失。与此同时，此类纪念碑的数量首先急剧增加，随后在公元前一世纪同样急剧下降。传统上，质的发展是用奢侈法来解释的，这应该限制丧葬支出。然而，对当地证据的仔细研究表明，这不仅不太可能，而且也不能解释数量上的发展，以及为什么社会和文化需要首先限制这些陪葬品。使用区别和概念惯习本文由 Bourdieu 开发，通过关注精英和非精英内部和之间的社会互动来分析 Chiusine 丧葬实践的发展。这使得这两个群体在一个复杂的社会、文化和政治过程中都能发挥作用，从而导致区分标准发生变化，最终使丧葬文化在希腊化意大利迅速变化的背景下对地位分化的重要性降低。