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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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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: Actaeon was a young Greek man from the city of Thebes who came by accident upon a small river pond near a cave where to his great amazement he saw the goddess Artemis bathing with her company of nymphs in the cool waters as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A long time ago, in a time when ancient gods roamed the earth, there lived a young Greek man named Actaeon from the city of Thebes. He was a handsome, talented and skilled hunter. One day, after a success- ful hunt in the forest, he came by accident upon a small river pond near a cave where to his great amazement he saw the goddess Artemis (Latin Diana) bathing with her company of nymphs in the cool waters. Artemis, a virgin goddess, patron of wild animals and small children, mistress of hunting and a major deity connected with initiation rites, noticed his forbidden gaze. First she blushed in embarrassment “as clouds bright-tinted by the slanting sun, or purple-dyed Aurora, so appeared Diana’s countenance when she was seen,” 1 then she executed a punishment: she turned Actaeon into a stag and set his pack of fifty dogs to hunt and devour him.2
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08 Jul 2019
TL;DR: In der vorliegenden Studie unter einer Perspektive betrachtet, die von der Kulturtransferforschung gepragt ist, und Kulture als kollektives Orientierungssystem versteht, bildet ein Novum in der neutestamentlichen Forschung as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Der Apostel Paulus wurde als Jude geboren und ausgesandt, um unter den Volkern das Evangelium von Jesus Christus zu verbreiten. Seine Rolle als interkultureller Vermittler wird in der vorliegenden Studie unter einer Perspektive betrachtet, die von der Kulturtransferforschung gepragt ist und Kultur als kollektives Orientierungssystem versteht. Leitend ist in der Kulturtransferforschung die Idee, dass kulturelle Artefakte von einer Ausgangskultur durch eine Mittlerinstanz in eine Zielkultur getragen werden. Die Weiterschreibung der Kulturtransferforschung im Ansatz der Histoire croisee nimmt daruber hinaus noch starker die verflochtenen, multidimensionalen und dynamischen Vorgange in den Blick. Diese Ansatze fur das Verstandnis des Paulus fruchtbar zu machen, bildet ein Novum in der neutestamentlichen Forschung. Ausgehend von einem Uberblick uber die Welt des Paulus jenseits einer Dichotomie zwischen Judentum und Hellenismus und jenseits der Vorstellung von Hellenismus als kulturellem 'Melting-Pot' kommt Paulus unter der Perspektive dieser Ansatze als bikulturelle Personlichkeit in den Blick. Dies erfolgt in einer Untersuchung der schriftlichen Selbstdarstellung des Volkerapostels in den echten Paulusbriefen, die zugleich das einzige uberlieferte Medium seiner Mittlertatigkeit sind. In den Fokus kommen sodann insbesondere die 'Spitzensatze' paulinischer Selbstbeschreibung als interkultureller Vermittler (1 Kor 9,19-23) im Hinblick auf die Menschen aus den Volkern. Diese Selbstbeschreibungen werden auf dem Hintergrund des antiken Konzepts von Adaptabilitat, d. h. des Sich-Anpassens eines Lehrers an sein jeweiliges Gegenuber, reflektiert. Wie sich diese Adaptabilitat bei Paulus manifestiert, zeigt sich beispielhaft in der unmittelbar folgenden Passage (1 Kor 9,24-27). Hier wird er mittels seiner Selbstdarstellung als Wettkampfer gleichsam fur die 'Menschen in Korinth wie ein Korinther'. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt auf, dass und in welcher Weise Paulus seine bikulturelle Personlichkeit einsetzt, um seine Adressatenschaft fur das Evangelium von Jesus Christus zu gewinnen.
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TL;DR: In the book of Ezra, the scribe is depicted as lamenting the news that the "holy seed" of Israel has "mixed itself with the peoples of the lands" through marriage.
Abstract: In the book of Ezra, the scribe is depicted as lamenting the news that the “holy seed” of Israel has “mixed itself with the peoples of the lands” through marriage. Such a mixing with outsiders is, ...
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TL;DR: The 2017 video game Assassin's Creed: Origins as mentioned in this paper is a noteworthy site to examine this debate, as the game was designed with the assistance of historians and cultural experts, presenting players with an “historically accurate” ancient Egypt.
Abstract: Recent portrayals of ancient Egypt in popular culture have renewed attention concerning the historical accuracy of how race and racism appear in representations of antiquity. Historians of the antiquity have robustly dismissed racist claims of whitewashing or blackwashing historical and cultural material in both scholarship and in popular culture. The 2017 video game Assassin’s Creed: Origins is a noteworthy site to examine this debate, as the game was designed with the assistance of historians and cultural experts, presenting players with an “historically accurate” ancient Egypt. Yet, if race is a fantasy, as Karen Fields and Barbara Fields’ “racecraft” articulates, then what historians have speculated in their study of race and racism are presentations of a proto-racecraft, borrowing from historian Benjamin Isaac. This essay argues that Assassin’s Creed: Origins racecrafts through the paradigm of historical speculation. As historians have speculated on meanings and operations of “race” and racism in ancient Egypt, Origins has made those speculations visible through its depiction of a racially diverse Ptolemaic Egypt. Yet, this racecraft is paradoxically good, as the game does so to push back against the hegemony of whiteness and whitewashing in contemporary popular culture.
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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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