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Ethnic Identity in Greek antiquity /

In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Jonathan M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Phrasing the problem. Introduction. The Dorians in a 'sociology of knowledge'
  • 2. The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view. The rise and fall of instrumentalism. Defining the ethnic group. The genesis and maintenance of ethnic groups. Summary
  • 3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity. Ethnic groups in ancient Greece. Myths of ethnic origins. The Athenians: Ionians or autochthons? Dorians and Herakleidai
  • 4. Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study. The ethnic populations of the Argolid. The genealogies of the Argolid. Decoding the genealogical grammar. Staking the Heraklid claim. Ethnicity and cult: Hera, Herakles and the Herakleidai
  • 5. Ethnicity and archaeology. Excavating the ethnic group.