Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
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.
- Covers an important subject area in ancient Greece
- Uses findings from literature, myth, archaeology, linguistics and social anthropology
- Hardcover was winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association 1999
Reviews & endorsements
"An interesting, if not easy, book written for scholars." Religious Studies Review
Product details
April 1997Hardback
9780521580175
248 pages
236 × 161 × 21 mm
0.503kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
