The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kennedy, Rebecca Futo; Jones-Lewis, Molly

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Produktbeschreibung

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 physical but cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume's contributions on a diverse range of topics address the ways in which environment was understood to shape culture and physical characteristics of peoples as well as the ways in which the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve a desired identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317415701
• Artikelnr.: 44753439

Autorenporträt

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