Author : Ton Derks
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9089640789
A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world.
Author : Nico Roymans
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9053567054
"This study explores the theme of Batavian ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the context of the Early Roman empire. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a culturally determined, subjective construct that is shaped through interaction with an ethnic 'other'. The study analyses literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources relating to the Batavian image and self-image against the backdrop of Batavian integration into the Roman world. The Batavians were intensively exploited by the Roman authorities for the recruitment of auxiliary soldiers, with the result that their society developed into a full-blown military community."--Jacket.
Author : Richard Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134649924
Identity is a 'trendy' and 'hot' topic in classics Eminent contributors, including Pat Easterling, Gillian Clarke Identity examined from different perspectives and as different structures - sexual, ethnic, geographic, status, religions - comprehensive Theoretically and critically up-to-date
Author :
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1624660894
By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110685655
This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories, labels, and frameworks. A central issue guides the course of the work: did ancient writers reflect upon collective identity as determined by common origins and lineage or by shared traditions and culture?
Author : Siân Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134767935
The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521789998
In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.
Author : Johannes Siapkas
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
This is a Ph.D. dissertation. In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasizes the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinizes how classical archaeologists and ancient hi
Author : Ton Derks
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN :
This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a subjective construct that is shaped through interaction with an ethnic 'other'. The 13 essays collected in this volume are based on the analysis of historical, epigraphic and archaeological source material and thematically range from Archaic Greece to Early Mediaeval Western Europe. Despite frequent claims by ethnic groups to the contrary, all ethnic formations are intrinsically unstable and dynamic over time. Much of this dynamism is to be understood in close association with conflict, violence and changing constellations of power. The explicit theoretical framework, together with the wide range of case-studies makes this volume indispensable for historians, archaeologists and social scientists with an interest in the ancient world.
Author : Andrew Gardner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release :
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780191750977
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