
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
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- Author: Jonathan M. Hall, University of Chicago
- Date Published: July 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521789998
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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 imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.
Read more- Covers an important subject area in ancient Greece
- Uses findings from literature, myth, archaeology, linguistics and social anthropology
- Hardcover was winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit of the American Philological Association 1999
Reviews & endorsements
'This is an important book. It is not the first study of ancient Greek ethnicity in recent years, but it is by far the most thorough and systematic … It is a major contribution to Classical studies, and a major challenge to the archaeology of prehistoric ethnicity.' Ian Morris, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
See more reviews' … a book which [is] a quite extraordinary combination of theoretical sophistication and historical erudition.' Roger Just, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
'Jonathan Hall's book is an event in classical scholarship.' David Konstan, Diaspora
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- Date Published: July 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521789998
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.345kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Phrasing the problem
2. The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view
3. The discursive dimension of ethnic identity
4. Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study
5. Ethnicity and archaeology
6. Ethnicity and linguistics
7. Conclusion.
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