Open AccessBook
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
TLDR
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.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Classicism and Romanitas in Plutarch's De Alexandri Fortuna Aut Virtute
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look beneath the pro-Hellenic veneer of imperial Greek writing by considering ways in which it can mask a sympathy with "Roman" ideas, that is, ideas that are typically by this time either credited to Romans (whether or not originally inspired by Greek ideas) or used to describe Romans in non-classicizing contexts.
Book ChapterDOI
Constructing Social and Cultural Identities in the Bronze Age
TL;DR: In this paper, the meaning of culture and how it is constituted in the Bronze Age has been investigated in the context of archeology, and the concept of culture has been employed in two different ways in archeology: from 1860s to 1960s, culture was predominantly used in an instrumental way, as a means to classify the past in time and space.
Journal ArticleDOI
Greek ethnicity and the Greek language
TL;DR: The authors argued that in antiquity, a Greek knew a Greek when he heard one, and this association of Greek language and ethnicity developed because, despite the many different dialects and political divisions within the Hellenic world, this predominantly oral society, thanks to its wandering poets and singers, national religious festivals and its widespread commerce among the various Greek states, maintained a high level of language compre hensibility among those who proclaimed themselves Greeks.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fear and Foreign Bodies: The Bible and "Post-Racial" American Identity
TL;DR: The Bible has played a prominent role in US political discourse, shaping ideas of race, ethnicity and identity as mentioned in this paper, and its influence on the political landscape today is most evident within conservative politics among evangelical Christians and the Tea Party Movement.
Journal ArticleDOI
Migration theory and ‘Greek Colonisation’. Milesians at Naukratis and Abydos
TL;DR: The authors used contemporary migration theory to conceptualise archaic Greek mobility and settlement, through the case studies of Milesian migration to Naukratis in Egypt and Abydos in the Troad during the 7th century BCE.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Outline of a Theory of Practice
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.
Book
The Interpretation of Cultures
Richard Fenn,Clifford Geertz +1 more
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.
Book
The Nuer, a description of the modes of livelihood and political institutions of a Nilotic people
Book
The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
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.