ISBN:
9781472537607
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Criminal Practice Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Almagor, Eran Ancient Ethnography : New Approaches
DDC:
305.8009
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Beginnings -- 1 The Invention of the 'Barbarian' in Late Sixth-Century bc Ionia -- 2 The Stories of the Others : Storytelling and Intercultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean -- Part 2 Responses -- 3 Looking at the Other: Visual Mediation and Greek Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis -- 4 Apologetic Ethnography : Megasthenes' Indica and the Seleucid Elephant -- 5 Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters - A Politics of Ethnography? -- Part 3 Transformations -- 6 Ethnography and the Gods in Tacitus' Germania -- 7 'But This Belongs to Another Discussion' : Exploring the Ethnographic Digression in Plutarch's Lives -- 8 Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae -- Part 4 Receptions -- 9 Imperial Visions, Imagined Pasts : Ethnography and Identity on India's North-Western Frontier -- 10 Exploring Virgin Fields : Henry and George Rawlinson on Ancient and Modern Orient -- 11 The Scope of Ancient Ethnography -- Index.
Abstract:
Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography's roots go all the way back to antiquity. This volume brings together eleven original essays exploring the wider intellectual and cultural milieux from which ancient ethnography arose, its transformation and development in antiquity, and the way in which 19th century receptions of ethnographic traditions helped shape the modern study of the ancient world. Finally, it addresses the extent to which all these themes remain inextricably intertwined with shifting and often highly contested notions of culture, power and identity. Its chapters deal with the origins of the term 'barbarian', the role of ethnography in Tacitus' Germania, Plutarch's Lives, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, Herodotean storytelling, Henry and George Rawlinson, and Megasthenes' treatise on India. At a time when modern ethnographies are becoming increasingly prevalent, wide-ranging, and experimental in their approach to describing cultural difference, this book encourages us to think about ancient ethnography in new and interesting ways, highlighting the wealth of material available for study and the complexities underpinning ancient and modern notions of what it meant to be Greek, Roman or 'barbarian'
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