Kurt A. Raaflaub

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. * Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines * Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas * Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118413111
• Artikelnr.: 39973647

Autorenporträt

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, emeritus at Brown University. His publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace, 2007), The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (ed., with Johann P. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (with Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (ed., with Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wager, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Kurt A.
Raaflaub 1 On Being Historical 6 David Carr 2 The Task and Ritual of
Historical Writing in Early China 19 Stephen W. Durrant 3 History and
Primordium in Ancient Indian Historical Writing: Itihasa and Puranòa in the
Mahabharata and Beyond 41 James L. Fitzgerald 4 Historical Consciousness
and Historical Traditions in Early North India 61 Romila Thapar 5 Thinking,
Recording, and Writing History in Ancient Japan: The Nihon shoki as a Text
of Transition 79 Christian Oberländer 6 As the Dharmacakra Turns: Buddhist
and Jain Macrohistorical Narratives of the Past, Present, and Future 97
Jason Neelis 7 History as Festival? A Reassessment of the Use of the Past
and the Place of Historiography in Ancient Egyptian Thought 117 Thomas
Schneider 8 The Presence of the Past in Early Mesopotamian Writings 144
Piotr Michalowski 9 "Two Old Tablets": Thinking, Recording, and Writing
History in Hittite Society 169 Theo van den Hout 10 Thinking and Writing
about History in Teispid and Achaemenid Persia 187 Robert Rollinger 11
Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible? 213 Marc Zvi Brettler 12 The Many
Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece 234 Jonas Grethlein 13
How the Romans Remembered, Recorded, Thought About, and Used Their Past 256
Andreas Mehl 14 Patterns of Early Christian Thinking and Writing of
History: Paul - Mark - Acts 276 Eve-Marie Becker 15 Byzantine historia 297
Stratis Papaioannou 16 The Past in the Early and Medieval Islamic Middle
East (circa 750-circa 1250) 314 Andrew Marsham 17 Sources and Scales of
Classic Maya History 340 Nicholas P. Carter 18 The Poetics and Politics of
Aztec History 372 Lori Boornazian Diel 19 Corn and Her Story Traveled:
Reading North American Graphic Texts in Relation to Oral Traditions 391
Lisa Brooks Index 417

Rezensionen

"This book meets three demands of the humanities today: transcending the Western perspective into a universal one; addressing the broad variety of cultures; and reflecting this new approach conceptually. Thus it gives new answers to the old question: what is history?"
--Jörn Rüsen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen

"In this excellent anthology, internationally renowned experts of historical thinking and writing embed their predecessors' ideas in their respective contexts. Furthermore, they convincingly explain the differences between pre-modern forms of historical thinking and the conceptual categories we use today."
--Josef Wiesehöfer, The University of Kiel