The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores the various ways in which environment was considered as a defining characteristic of ethnicity and identity in the Greek and Roman rational, scientific, and pseudo-scientific discourses. Defining 'environment' broadly to include not only
The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores the various ways in which environment was considered as a defining characteristic of ethnicity and identity in the Greek and Roman rational, scientific, and pseudo-scientific discourses. Defining 'environment' broadly to include not only
Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics at Denison University. Molly Jones-Lewis is Lecturer in Ancient Studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction, "Identity and the Environment" Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Molly Jones-Lewis I. Ethnic Identity and the Body 1. Airs, Waters, Metals, Earth: People and Land in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought, Rebecca Futo Kennedy 2. The Ecology Of Health in Dicaearchus and Agatharchides, Clara Bosak-Schroeder 3. The Invention and Purposes of Racial Deformity, Robert Garland 4. Ethnicity in Writers of Physiognomica, Max L. Goldman 5. Health as a Criterion in Ancient Ethnographic Schemes, Eran Almagor 6. 12th century European Environmental Medicine and Ethnic Stereotyping, Claire Weeda 7. Reception of Greek Climatic Theory in Medieval Jewish Science, Abraham Melamed II. Determined and Determining Ethnicity 8. Colonisation, nostos and the foreign environment in Xenophon's Anabasis , Rosie Harman 9. The World in a Pill: Local Specialties and Global Remedies in the Greco-Roman World, Laurence Totelin 10. Vitruvius, landscape and heterotopias: how 'otherspaces' enrich Roman identity, Diana Spencer 11. Tribal Identity in the Roman World: The Case of the Psylloi, Molly Jones-Lewis 12. Animals, Identity, and the Environment, Jared Secord 13. Who Reads the Stars? Origen's Critique of Astrological Geography, Kathleen Gibbons 14. Climate and Courage, Georgia Irby 15. Nationality, Religious Belief, Geographical Identity, And Sociopolitical Awareness In Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Thought, Shlomo Sela 16. The Lost Origins of the Daylamites and the Construction of a New Ethnic Legacy for the Buyids, Christine Baker III. Mapping Ethnicity 17. Location and Dislocation in Early Greek Geography and Ethnography, Philip Kaplan 18. The Terrain of Autochthony: Shaping the Athenian Landscape in the Fifth-Century BCE, Jacquelyn Clements 19. Modelling Ethnicity: Patterns Of Ethnic Evaluation In The Indian Records Of Alexander's Companions And Megasthenes, Daniela Dueck 20. These happy people: Arabia Felix and the astrological oikoumene of Claudius Ptolemaeus, Joanna Komorowska 21. 'Ugly as Sin': Monsters and Barbarians in Late Antiquity, Maja Kominko 22. "Their lands are peripheral and their qi is blocked up": The uses of environmental determinism in Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Chinese interpretations of the 'barbarians,' Shao-yun Yang 23. The Races of 'India' in the Early Ages of Reconnaissance, Galia Halpern
Introduction, "Identity and the Environment" Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Molly Jones-Lewis I. Ethnic Identity and the Body 1. Airs, Waters, Metals, Earth: People and Land in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought, Rebecca Futo Kennedy 2. The Ecology Of Health in Dicaearchus and Agatharchides, Clara Bosak-Schroeder 3. The Invention and Purposes of Racial Deformity, Robert Garland 4. Ethnicity in Writers of Physiognomica, Max L. Goldman 5. Health as a Criterion in Ancient Ethnographic Schemes, Eran Almagor 6. 12th century European Environmental Medicine and Ethnic Stereotyping, Claire Weeda 7. Reception of Greek Climatic Theory in Medieval Jewish Science, Abraham Melamed II. Determined and Determining Ethnicity 8. Colonisation, nostos and the foreign environment in Xenophon's Anabasis , Rosie Harman 9. The World in a Pill: Local Specialties and Global Remedies in the Greco-Roman World, Laurence Totelin 10. Vitruvius, landscape and heterotopias: how 'otherspaces' enrich Roman identity, Diana Spencer 11. Tribal Identity in the Roman World: The Case of the Psylloi, Molly Jones-Lewis 12. Animals, Identity, and the Environment, Jared Secord 13. Who Reads the Stars? Origen's Critique of Astrological Geography, Kathleen Gibbons 14. Climate and Courage, Georgia Irby 15. Nationality, Religious Belief, Geographical Identity, And Sociopolitical Awareness In Abraham Ibn Ezra's Astrological Thought, Shlomo Sela 16. The Lost Origins of the Daylamites and the Construction of a New Ethnic Legacy for the Buyids, Christine Baker III. Mapping Ethnicity 17. Location and Dislocation in Early Greek Geography and Ethnography, Philip Kaplan 18. The Terrain of Autochthony: Shaping the Athenian Landscape in the Fifth-Century BCE, Jacquelyn Clements 19. Modelling Ethnicity: Patterns Of Ethnic Evaluation In The Indian Records Of Alexander's Companions And Megasthenes, Daniela Dueck 20. These happy people: Arabia Felix and the astrological oikoumene of Claudius Ptolemaeus, Joanna Komorowska 21. 'Ugly as Sin': Monsters and Barbarians in Late Antiquity, Maja Kominko 22. "Their lands are peripheral and their qi is blocked up": The uses of environmental determinism in Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Chinese interpretations of the 'barbarians,' Shao-yun Yang 23. The Races of 'India' in the Early Ages of Reconnaissance, Galia Halpern
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