Jeremy McInerney

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity
Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities
Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities
Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity
Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1302g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337341
• ISBN-10: 1444337343
• Artikelnr.: 40781929

Autorenporträt

THE EDITOR Jeremy McInerney is the Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of The Cattle of the Sun (2010) and The Folds of Parnassos (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Ethnicity: An Introduction 1
Jeremy McInerney 2 Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean 17
Harald Haarmann 3 Mediterranean Archaeology and Ethnicity 34 A. Bernard
Knapp 4 Ethnicity and World-Systems Analysis 50 Thomas D. Hall 5 Ancient
Ethnicity and Modern Identity 66 Johannes Siapkas 6 Bronze Age
Identities: From Social to Cultural and Ethnic Identity 82 Kristian
Kristiansen 7 Networks and Ethnogenesis 97 Anna C. F. Collar 8 Ethnic
Identities, Borderlands, and Hybridity 112 Gary Reger 9 Hittites and
Anatolian Ethnic Diversity 127 Trevor R. Bryce 10 Hybridity, Hapiru, and
the Archaeology of Ethnicity in Second Millennium BCE Western Asia 142 Ann
E. Killebrew 11 Ethnicity in Empire: Assyrians and Others 158 Geoff
Emberling 12 Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity 175 Jennifer
Gates-Foster 13 Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity 194 Stuart Tyson Smith 14 The
Study of Greek Ethnic Identities 213 Nino Luraghi 15 Ethnicity and Local
Myth 228 Angela Ganter, née Kühr 16 Autochthony in Ancient Greece 241 James
Roy 17 Ethnicity and the Stage 256 Efi Papadodima 18 Ethnos and Koinon 270
Emily Mackil 19 Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 285 Alexander
Thein 20 Ethnicity and Geography 298 Philip Kaplan 21 Black Sea Ethnicities
312 Gocha R. Tsetskhladze 22 Greeks and Phoenicians in the Western
Mediterranean 327 Corinne Bonnet 23 Herodotus and Ethnicity 341 Rosaria
Vignolo Munson 24 Ethnicity and Representation 356 S. Rebecca Martin 25
Ethnicity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians 376 Aaron P. Johnson 26 Greek
Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic 390 Adam M. Kemezis 27 Ethnicity and the
Etruscans 405 Nancy T. de Grummond 28 Romans and Jews 423 Erich S. Gruen 29
Romans and Italians 437 Gary D. Farney 30 Roman Elite Ethnicity 455 Parshia
Lee-Stecum 31 Ethnicity in Roman Religion 470 Jörg Rüpke 32 Ethnicity and
Gender 483 Kathryn Lomas 33 Ethnicity in the Roman Northwest 497 Ursula
Rothe 34 Lucanians and Southern Italy 514 John W. Wonder 35 Who Are You?
Africa and Africans 527 Brent D. Shaw 36 Becoming Roman Again: Roman
Ethnicity and Italian Identity 541 Valentina Follo 37 Goths and Huns 555
Walter Pohl Index 569

Rezensionen

Electronic review copy sent to Ancient West & East 9/4/14 (Leah A)

US review list:
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Classical Philology (occasional reviewer)
American Journal of Ancient History (contributor)
Classical Antiquity (contributor)
Greek, Roman. And Byzantine Studies (contributor)
Phoenix
Classical Journal (contributor)

ROW:
Classical Review (occasional reviewer)
Journal of Hellenic Studies
Journal of Roman Studies
Historia
Latomus
Gnomon
Pallas
Revue des Etudes greques
Antichthon
Reference Reviews
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