Ethnic constructs in antiquity : the role of power and tradition / editors, Ton Derks & Nico Roymans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derks, Ton.

Roymans, Nico

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 13.

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--History--To 1500.

Ethnicity.

History, Ancient.

History.

Physical Description:

344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]

Summary:

This bold and original volume explores themes of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in the societies of the ancient world. It starts with a current view held by many in the social and historical sciences, namely that ethnicity is a subjective concept shaped through an interaction with the ethnic other. The thirteen essays collected here analyze historical, epigraphic, and archaeological source material in order to consider the dynamic nature of ethnic formations over time, and range thematically from archaic Greece to early medieval Western Europe.

Contents:

Ethnic expression on the early Iron Age and early archaic Greek mainland : where should we be looking? / Catherine Morgan

The Ionians in the archaic period : shifting identities in a changing world / Jan Paul Crielaard

From Athenian identity to European ethnicity : the cultural biography of the myth of Marathon / Hans-Joachim Gehrke

Multi-ethnicity and ethnic segregation in Hellenistic Babylon / Bert van der Spek

The Galatians in the Roman Empire : historical tradition and ethnic identity in Hellenistic and and Roman Asia Minor / Karl Strobel

Material culture and plural identity in early Roman southern Italy / Douwe Yntema

Foundation myths in Roman Palestine : traditions and reworkings / Nicole Belayche

Ethnic discourses on the frontiers of Roman Africa / Dick Whittaker

Cruptorix and his kind : talking ethnicity on the middle ground / Greg Woolf

Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman Empire / Nico Roymans

Ethnic identity in the Roman frontier : the epigraphy of Batavi and other Lower Rhine tribes / Ton Derks

Grave goods, ethnicity, and the rhetoric of burial rites in late antique northern Gaul / Frans Theuws

The early-medieval use of ethnic names from classical antiquity : the case of the Frisians / Jos Bazelmans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789089640789

9089640789

OCLC:

317753936

Publisher Number:

99934995724