Ancient Ethnography - New Approaches

Zusatztext This carefully-edited and well-compiled collection is borne by a fascination with ancient ethnography. Informationen zum Autor Eran Almagor was Lecturer in History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and is now an independent scholar. He is the author of several articles on subjects including Plutarch, Greeks and barbarians, and ancient ethnography. Joseph Skinner is Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University, UK. Zusammenfassung A series of essays by high-profile contributors discussing ancient ethnographic thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionEran Almagor and Joseph Skinner Part 1: Beginnings The Invention of the ‘Barbarian’ in Late 6th Century BC Ionia Hyun Jin Kim (University of Sydney, Australia)The Stories of the Others: Storytelling and Inter-cultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham, UK) Part 2: Responses Looking at the Other: Visual Mediation and Greek Identity in Xenophon’s Anabasis Rosie Harman (University College London, UK)Apologetic Ethnography: Megasthenes’ Indica and the Seleucid ElephantPaul J. Kosmin (Harvard University, USA)Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters – A Politics of Ethnography?Jacek Rzepka (Warsaw University, Poland) Part 3: Transformations Ethnography and the Gods in Tacitus' Germania Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews, UK)‘But This Belongs to Another Discussion’: Ethnographic Digressions in PlutarchEran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae Katerina Oikonomopoulou (University of Patras, Greece) Part 4: Receptions Imperial Visions, Imagined Pasts: Ethnography and Identity on India's North-Western FrontierJoseph Skinner (University of Newcastle, UK)Exploring Virgin Fields: Henry and George Rawlinson on Ancient and Modern OrientThomas Harrison (University of Liverpool, UK)The Scope of Ancient EthnographyEmma Dench (Harvard University, USA)Index...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Eran Almagor, Eran Skinner Almagor, Bloomsbury Publishing, Joseph Skinner
• Collaboration: Eran Almagor (Editeur), Almagor Eran (Editeur), Joseph Skinner (Editeur)
• Edition: Bloomsbury Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9781474234764
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-3476-4
• Pages: 296
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, General & world history, Ancient World, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory