Ancient ethnography: new approaches

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Ancient ethnography: new approaches
المساهمون: Almagor, Eran., Skinner, Joseph.
سنة النشر: 2013
وصف مادي: viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
مصطلحات موضوعية: Ethnology -- History -- Sources., Ethnology in literature., Civilization, Ancient., Civilization, Classical., HISTORY / Ancient / General., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General., Identität., Ethnologie., History., Sources.
جغرافية الموضوع: Griechenland., Römisches Reich.
الوصف: "By providing a platform for scholars working in a variety of fields, this volume presents cutting-edge research dealing with various aspects of ancient ethnographic thought: its formation and devlopment, its intellectual and cultural milieux, the later reception of ethnographic traditons, and the extent to which these represent major constitutive elements of shifting notions of culture, power and identity"--
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Ancient Ethnography Through the Ages Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) and Joseph Skinner (University of Liverpool, UK)Part One: Beginnings The Invention of the 'Barbarian' in Late Sixth-century BC Ionia Hyun Jin Kim (University of Sydney, Australia) The Stories of the Others: Storytelling and inter-cultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham, UK) Part Two: Responses An Achaemenid Ethnography? Dress, Costume, and Race on the Apadana Reliefs at PersepolisLloyd Llewellyn-Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK) Looking at the other: Vision, Travel and Greek Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis Rosie Harman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) From the Indus to the Ganges: Apology and Analogy in Megasthenes' Indica Paul J. Kosmin (Harvard University, USA) Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters -- a Politics of Ethnography? Jacek Rzepka (Warsaw University, Poland) The Ethnographic Map in Early Rabbinic Literature Eyal Ben Eliyahu (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)Part Three: Transformations Ethnographic Digressions in Plutarch's Lives Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)Ethnography and the Gods in Tacitus' Germania Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews, UK) Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae Katerina Oikonomopoulou (University of Patras, Greece) Part Four: Receptions From Imagined Ethnographies to Invented Ethnicities: The Example of the Homeric Halyzones Anca Dan (Institute of Neohellenic Research, Greece) Imperial Visions, Imagined Pasts: Ethnography and identity on India's North-west Frontier Joseph Skinner (University of Liverpool, UK) A Tale of Two Rawlinsons Thomas Harrison (University of Liverpool, UK) Postscript: The Past and Future of Ancient Ethnography Emma Dench (Harvard University, USA) Index.
Original Identifier: ocn780484277
(PromptCat)60001850120
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-1-84966-890-3
1-84966-890-6
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.013816575.0
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9781849668903
1849668906