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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Skinner |
| ISBN: | 9780199793600 0199793603 |
| OCLC Number: | 722450912 |
| Description: | xi, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ethnography before Ethnography -- 1.1.Framing the Problem: Defining Ethnography -- 1.2."Other" Ethnographies -- 1.3.Ethnography (re) Defined -- 1.4.Approaches to (Greek) Identity -- 1.5.Structuring Discourse, Inventing Genre: Felix Jacoby and Greek Ethnography -- 1.6.Ethnography and Identity -- 1.7.Polarities Deconstructed -- 1.8.Setting Sail: Homeric Paradigms and the Economies of Knowledge -- ch. 2 Populating the Imaginaire -- 2.1.Phaeacians and Cyclopes -- 2.2.Hyperboreans -- 2.3.Arimaspians -- 2.4.Scythians -- 2.5.Amazons -- 2.6.Thracians -- 2.7.Phoenicians -- 2.8.Lydians -- 2.9.Ethiopians -- 2.10.Egyptians -- 2.11.Pelasgians -- 2.12.Arcadia -- ch. 3 Mapping Ethnography -- 3.1.Naming and Describing -- 3.1.1.Epithets -- 3.1.2.Stereotyping -- 3.2.listing and Imagining -- 3.3.Enquiring -- 3.4.Celebrating Place and People -- 3.4.1.Epinicia -- 3.4.2.Greek Coinage and its Reception -- 3.5.Visualizing -- 3.6.Consuming Ch. 4 Mapping Identities -- 4.1.Between Boundless Steppe and a Welcoming Sea: Olbia and its Environs -- 4.1.1.Negotiated Heterogeneity: From Earliest Contacts to the Fifth Century B.C. -- 4.1.2.Points of Contact and Receptions of Difference -- 4.2.Reconstructing Identities in Southern Calabria: An Archaeology of discourse -- 4.2.1.Framing the Argument: Contact, Interaction, and Systems of Exchange -- 4.2.2.Landscape and Identity in Southern Calabria -- 4.2.3.Materials in Circulation, Ideas in Play -- 4.2.4.The Play of Identities, Knowledge, and Difference -- 4.2.5.Notions of Place -- 4.2.6.The Case for Difference: The Western Locrians -- 4.2.7.Conflict, Connectivity, and Exchange: The View from the Margins -- 4.3.The Imagined Centre: Identity and Difference at Delphi and Olympia -- 4.3.1.(Re)constructing Difference at Delphi and Olympia -- 4.3.2."Reading" Objects, Viewing People: Everyday Activities at the Center of all things "Greek" -- 4.3.3.Delphi and Colonization 4.3.4.Eclectic Spaces? Material Identities, Intercultural Contact, and Receptions of "Difference" -- ch. 5 The Invention of Greek Ethnography -- 5.1.Ethnography and Identity, from Homer to Herodotus -- 5.2.Inventing the Greek -- 5.3.Ancient Ethnography: Future Directions, New Approaches. |
| Series Title: | Greeks overseas. |
| Responsibility: | Joseph Skinner. |
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The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.
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The Invention of Greek Ethnography is a welcome addition to studies of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Ambitious in scope and intelligent in execution, the book positions the question of ethnographic prose in the broad context of Mediterranean engagements with cultural identity, articulated in art historical and archaeological as well as literary sources * Sandra Blakely, Classical Journal * Thoroughly researched and ambitious book. * Elizabeth Belfiore, Hermathena No. 291 * Read more...
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