Cognitive perspectives on Israelite identity /

Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nestor, Dermot
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : T & T Clark International, ©2010.
Colección:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 519.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Temas:
Ethnicity in the Bible.
Group identity.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Jews > Identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Ethnicité dans la Bible.
Identité collective.
Ethnoarchéologie.
Juifs > Identité.
Identité.
group identity.
ethnoarchaeology.
identity.
BIBLES > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference > General.
RELIGION > Biblical Reference.
Ethnicity in the Bible
Ethnoarchaeology
Group identity
Jews > Identity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner, ' this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and 'commonsense primordialisms' encoded with.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 276 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and indexes.
ISBN:9780567468000
0567468003

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