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Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
01 Jan 1997-
TL;DR: The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view 3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity 4. Ethnicity and genealogy: an Argolic case-study as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: 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.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzes two components of Aristotle's physiological discussion of natural character in the biological works: its close causal connection to a living being's material nature and its changeability due to external environmental factors.
Abstract: This paper analyzes two components of Aristotle’s physiological discussion of natural character in the biological works: its close causal connection to a living being’s material nature and its changeability due to external environmental factors. As I shall argue, both components are important for our understanding of Aristotle’s views about the moral development of human beings in his ethical treatises. Starting with Aristotle’s ethnographical passage in the Politics ( Pol VII 7, 1327b18–38), according to which differences among the natural character traits of the various nations of human beings—and hence of the ease with which lawgivers can lead them to virtue—are related to the different climates in which they live, this paper fleshes out some of Aristotle’s most prominent views about natural character and its implications for who can and who cannot become virtuous and happy.
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07 Sep 2017
TL;DR: The role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control is explored and celebrated in this article.
Abstract: Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis. This book explores and celebrates this rich, diverse and dynamic culture through analyses of important sites, as well as Minoan administration, writing, economy and ritual. Key themes include the role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, the variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control.
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01 Nov 2007
TL;DR: The Achaemenid Persian empire lasted for slightly over two hundred years and incorporated several languages and cultures, as well as diverse forms of economic subsistence as discussed by the authors. But, despite population movements, Anatolians into northern Syria, Philistines on the southern Levantine coast, population across northern Syria and northern Mesopotamia may have decreased due to a prolonged period of desiccation.
Abstract: The Achaemenid Persian empire lasted for slightly over two hundred years, and incorporated several languages and cultures, as well as diverse forms of economic subsistence. This chapter focuses on one major region of the empire, the Near East. The Persian period should be viewed as a continuation of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, although new developments can be detected that would have underpinned increased economic growth. Despite population movements, Anatolians into northern Syria, Philistines on the southern Levantine coast, population across northern Syria and northern Mesopotamia may have decreased due to a prolonged period of desiccation. The population movement in the Neo- Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods led to increased urbanization in the Assyrian home provinces and, later, in Babylonia, while urban centers decreased in central and southern Syria-Palestine. The chapter also discusses the impact of imperialism on institutions and organizations, specifically regarding the control and exploitation of agricultural land.
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14 Sep 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the processus de construction de discours d'appartenance identitaire dans la litterature judeenne et chretienne aux Ier et IIe siecles is discussed.
Abstract: S’inscrivant dans un courant majeur de la recherche historique et de la reflexion epistemologique actuelles sur l’etude des phenomenes de construction identitaire dans l’Antiquite, notre recherche s’interesse plus particulierement aux processus de construction de discours d’appartenance identitaire dans la litterature judeenne et chretienne aux Ier et IIe siecles. Il apparait vain de vouloir circonscrire une definition unique et unilaterale de ces identites durant cette periode, car une telle definition s’avererait plus utopique que realiste en raison de la pluralite des mouvements qui composent le « judaisme » et le « christianisme » anciens et des auteurs qui ont tente, par leurs discours, de definir et de presenter ces identites. Etablir une liste de criteres pour delimiter ces identites et, par consequent, pour distinguer ceux qui peuvent ou non se reclamer d’etre Judeens ou chretiens, nous semble inadequat pour la realite antique. Par consequent, la perspective adoptee dans cette recherche est de reflechir a la maniere dont il convient d’aborder les identites anciennes et les processus de construction identitaire dans l’Antiquite a la fois comme objet d’etude et comme approche disciplinaire. Notre recherche consiste en une etude socio-historique des identites judeennes et chretiennes des Ier et IIe siecles tout en proposant une reflexion methodologique, epistemologique, terminologique et historiographique des questions et phenomenes identitaires anciens qui sont abordes dans une perspective « – emic » et « – etic » et a partir de divers postes d’observation prenant en consideration des points de vue internes (insiders) et externes (outsiders) a ces identites.
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TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
Abstract: Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.
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TL;DR: Sian Jones as mentioned in this paper argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation, and presents a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences.
Abstract: The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
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