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We and They Decolonizing Graeco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities.
The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the pas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (153 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788771849370 8771849378 |