Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780521789998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 248 str.

Jonathan M. Hall

Opis

The purpose of this book is to show that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural, but social groups whose "origins" in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. This is the first study to treat the subject from a truly interdisciplinary point of view, embracing literature, myth, archaeology, linguistics and social anthropology. It also outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

Recenzje

'Jonathan Hall's book is an event in classical scholarship.' David Konstan, Diaspora

Spis treści

1. Phrasing the problem; 2. The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view; 3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity; 4. Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study; 5. Ethnicity and archaeology; 6. Ethnicity and linguistics; 7. Conclusion.