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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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04 Apr 2016
TL;DR: In this article, a reinterpretation of Acts 6.1.1 and 8.40 is presented, with a focus on the relation between non-Palestinian and non-Arabic Jews.
Abstract: Diaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative in popularizing and expanding the nomenclature of diaspora between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Transliterated from the Greek noun διασπορά (diaspora), the term’s modern development relied heavily on paradigmatic projections of sameness. In Diaspora Studies, diaspora generally functions as a heuristic that highlights the maintenance and evolution of relationships, identities and memory that are subsequent to boundary crossings. Iterations in Africana and Black Atlantic Studies exemplify the term’s use as theoretical concept or presumed, transnational identity. New Testament Studies, however, principally uses diaspora as a binary framework to (re)construct the Jewish milieu of early Roman-era Judaism and Christianity, receiving little consideration as analytical theory. Diaspora, thus, in the study of early Christian literature primarily denotes non-Palestinian geography. These three disparate trajectories intersect in these prolegomena to a diaspora-oriented reading of Acts 6.1 – 8.40.
Informed by Martinican Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourses, this Black American engagement with Black Atlantic cultural criticism provides context for reevaluating the etymology and intellectual traditions of the diaspora-concept. Its resultant view approaches diaspora as a form of relatedness that privileges the multidimensionality of identity while negotiating particularity as relatedness-amidst-difference. Applying this (re)vision of diaspora to Black American discourse aids in the contextual construction of a poetics of diaspora that is characterized by figurative negotiations of i) ethno-cultural/geopolitical difference, ii) Empire, iii) intra-communal debate and iv) (re)narrations of the past. Modeled on Black American discourse, this diaspora poetics generates alternative readings of ancient texts across various imperial settings. When applied to Acts 6.1 – 8.40 and its ancient imperial context, diaspora poetics highlights Acts’ recurrent validation of geopolitical particularity and thematic focus on interactions between Palestinian and non-Palestinian Jews. Diaspora is integral in Luke’s negotiation of the diverse and tenuous world of early imperial Rome. Consequently, this (re)reading of diaspora calls for (re)interpreting Acts 6.1 – 8.40 amongst ancient Diaspora contexts by contextually (re)conceiving difference and (re)evaluating Black American poetics.
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01 Jul 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the region of Arkadia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age using an interpretative and phenomenologically inspired approach, through an exploration of different aspects of the human experience such as religion, death and burial and the everyday.
Abstract: This research explores the region of Arkadia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age using an interpretative and phenomenologically inspired approach. It is region associated with many myths pointing to a continuing population throughout the period, yet beset with a problematic archaeological record. This has been the result of a number of factors ranging from the nature of the landscape to the history of research. However, the ability to locate sites of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age within the landscape, allows insight into a region we had little hope of enlightening using more conventional approaches to the archaeological record. This theoretical and methodological stance is illustrated through an exploration of different aspects of the human experience such as religion, death and burial and the everyday. The ways in which these aspects can and usually are interpreted are considered, followed by a number of case studies, which are employed to explore how human actions were embedded within and informed by the very physicality of the landscape, and the differences apparent throughout time.
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...For example, the crooked iota is found in use in Arkadia, Achaea and Korinth and various inscriptions from Olympia cannot be readily identified as specifically Arkadian or Eleian (Jeffery 1990, pp.207208; 215; Hall 1997, p.146 fig.21)....
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28 Mar 2013TL;DR: A World Full of Gods: Porphyry the Theologian as mentioned in this paper discusses the taxonomy of the divine and the limits of Hellenism in the context of translation and ethnic particularism.
Abstract: 1. At the limits of Hellenism: an introduction Part I. A World Full of Gods: Porphyry the Theologian: 2. Porphyry's taxonomy of the divine 3. Salvation, translation, and the limits of cult 4. The master reader: contexts of translation Part II. A World Full of Nations: Porphyry the Ethnographer: 5. Knowledge and nations: Porphyry's ethnic argumentation 6. Ethnic particularism and the limits of Hellenism 7. The way home: transcending particularism Epilogue: translation after Porphyry.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: This article argued that the divine regeneration metaphor in 1 Peter is fully integrated into the author's theological goal of constructing Christian identity in ethnic terms, arguing that people acquire ethnic identities through birth and by living according to the group's values.
Abstract: This thesis argues that the divine regeneration metaphor in 1 Peter is fully integrated into the author’s theological goal of constructing Christian identity in ethnic terms. The author grounds Christian regeneration on Christ’s resurrection (Chapter 2, 1:3) and the preaching of the word, through which the imperishable seed is implanted in believers (Chapter 3, 1:23-25). Believers are then socialized into their new identity by feeding on spiritual milk like newborn babes
(Chapter 4, 2:1-3) and being built into a spiritual house and corporate temple (Chapter 5, 2:4-10). All of these images contribute to Christian ethnic identity by activating different aspects of Jewish and Greco-Roman perceptions of what constituted ethnic identity.
Chapter 1 prepares the groundwork for this study by reviewing previous scholarship on Petrine regeneration, metaphor theory, and ancient and modern perceptions of ethnicity. This chapter also maps the letter’s structure to provide a bird’s eye view of the letter as a whole.
The following chapters then examine one Petrine metaphor in light of its Jewish and early Christian precedents. In most cases, 1 Peter is in continuity with Jewish and Christian traditions, though the author of the letter always recasts these traditions for his own purposes. Each of these metaphors link together to bring the reader into the interpretive process as an active participant. These metaphors also relativize the importance of physical familial relationships, heritage, and group belonging in favor of heightened awareness of Christian membership. People acquire ethnic identities through birth and by living according to the group’s values. In 1 Peter, believers acquire their new identity through their divine regeneration, but this regeneration must be fostered, maintained, and developed by living holy lives dedicated to God in order to become his chosen people.
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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: The INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ Books files are available at the online library of the University of Southern California as mentioned in this paper, where they can be used to find any kind of Books for reading.
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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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