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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: In this paper, the authors examined the Early Iron Age tumulus-cemetery of Halos in south-eastern Thessaly, with its unique cremation pyre-cairn combination.
Abstract: Summary. This paper examines the Early Iron Age tumulus-cemetery of Halos in south-eastern Thessaly, with its unique cremation pyre-cairn combination. As there are no parallels for such combination of burial practices either in Thessaly or in any other area of the Greek world, it has usually been suggested that the tumuli were erected by people foreign to Thessaly, most probably of a northern origin. This paper presents evidence suggesting a local custom closely related to the desire to create a new identity.

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  • ...In the first, somepeopleattemptto gain authorityby forging links with distantancestorsfor thepurposeof legitimatingterritorial andsocio-politicalclaims(Hall 1997,138–9)....

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Sep 2002
TL;DR: Jashemski's Festschrift as mentioned in this paper presents an exploration into late seventeenth-century England to expose the connections between Polybius' fortunes, the career of Mr John Dryden, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Abstract: Retirement is well known to be a time for making excursions. And though indeed we all know that Wilhelmina Jashemski has not retired in any real sense of the word (nor is likely to do so), nevertheless, as my contribution to her Festschrift I invite her to tear herself away from Pompeii (and from the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks) and to accompany me on a brief voyage of exploration into late seventeenth-century England, where I shall try to expose the connections between Polybius' fortunes, the career of Mr John Dryden, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Already by the fifteenth century Polybius was known in England, where a Latin translation of his work is mentioned among the books in John Shirwood's library in 1471–2. But until well into the eighteenth century only three English translations of the historian had appeared. In the first two of these Polybius was not well served. In 1568, under Elizabeth I, Christopher Watson of St John's College, Cambridge, produced a self-indulgent volume in which, after inveighing against ‘tearing time and blinde ignorance, capital foes to vertue and good literature’, he printed an indifferent rendering of Book I and, for no very good reason, filled out the rest of the volume with an account of ‘the Victorious Actes of King Henry Fift’.

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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: This article argued that the Greek version of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) is presented not so much in the genre of a Gnostic redeemer myth, but rather as a god-child myth that has neither an Orthodox nor a gnostic orientation.
Abstract: The article argues that the Greek version of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) is presented not so much in the genre of a Gnostic redeemer myth, but rather as a god-child myth that has neither an Orthodox nor a Gnostic orientation. Its context is rather early "Ebionite Christianity". Ebionite thought refers to a school of thought among the early Jesus movements that clung to the fact that Jesus was a "Jew". The article illustrates that it is unclear what the term "Jewishness" means. The article builds upon existing research on ethnicity theory that shows an awareness of those cultural traits that one must look out for when one is analysing the ethnic identity of a certain group of people.

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Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this article, a book on the evolution of the earliest states and civilizations is presented, with an apology for using the term "evolution" in the book's foreword.
Abstract: Definierbar ist nur Das, was keine Geschichte hat. (You can only define things that have no history.) friedrich nietzsche There is an irony in beginning a book on the “evolution of the earliest states and civilizations” with an apology for using the term “evolution.” Nevertheless, it is far from unusual for archaeologists (e.g. Hegmon 2003) to eschew the term in favor of discussing “social change,” “social development,” or the like. Critics have argued that social evolution presents a theory of how history is a continuation of biological evolution, in which societies advance from lower to higher forms. Such “neo-evolutionary” theory has been used to justify racism, the exploitation of colonized peoples, and Occidental contempt towards other cultures (Godelier 1986:3). Social evolution has, not entirely unfairly, been characterized as an illusion of history, as a Hegelian prophecy of a rational process that culminated in the modern bourgeois state, capitalist economies, and technological advance. Such criticisms are by no means new, and exuberant schools of disenchantment that are today common in anthropology and other faculties disdain the idea of social evolution in all its forms. Little wonder that many archaeologists are uncomfortable with the term. Although I criticize neo-evolutionary theory as it has been used in archaeology and anthropology, that is, the attempt to create categories of human progress and to fit prehistoric and modern “traditional” societies into them (which stems from the nineteenth-century founders Lewis Henry Morgan and Edward Tylor and was represented in the mid-twentieth century by Leslie White and Julian Steward and others), I find “evolution” an appropriate term for investigating the kinds of social change depicted in this book.

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Dissertation
09 Apr 2010

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01 Jan 1980
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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01 Jan 1973
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.
Abstract: THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ PDF Are you searching for THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ Books files? Now, you will be happy that at this time THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ PDF is available at our online library. With our complete resources, you could find THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ PDF or just found any kind of Books for your readings everyday.

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Book
01 Jan 1997
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.

816 citations