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Ancient ethnography : new approaches /
"By providing a platform for scholars working in a variety of fields, this volume presents cutting-edge research dealing with various aspects of ancient ethnographic thought: its formation and development, its intellectual and cultural milieux, the later reception of ethnographic traditons, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Eran Almagor and Joseph Skinner
- Part 1. Beginnings: 1. The Invention of the 'Barbarian' in Late Sixth-Century BC Ionia / Hyun Jin Kim; 2. The Stories of the Others: Storytelling and Intercultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean / Kostas Vlassopoulos
- Part 2. Responses: 3. Looking at the other: Vision, Travel and Greek Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis / Rosie Harman; 4. Apologetic Ethnography: Megasthenes' Indica and the Seleucid Elephant / Paul Kosmin; 5. Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters
- a Politics of Ethnography? / Jacek Rzepka
- Part 3. Transformations: 6. Ethnography and the Gods in Tacitus' Germania / Greg Woolf; 7. 'But This Belongs to Another Discussion': Exploring the Ethnographic Digressions in Plutarch's Lives / Eran Almagor; 8. Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae / Katerina Oikonomopoulou
- Part 4. Receptions: 9. Imperial Visions, Imagined Pasts: Ethnography and identity on India's North-Western Frontier / Joseph Skinner; 10. Exploring Virgin Fields: Henry and George Rawlinson on Ancient and Modern Orient / Thomas Harrison; 11. The Scope of Ancient Ethnography / Emma Dench.