The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to HerodotusGreek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks' "encounter with the barbarian"--Achaemenid Persia--during the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC. The dramatic nature of this meeting, it was thought, caused previous imaginings to crystallise into the diametric opposition between "Hellene" and "barbarian" that would ultimately give rise to ethnographic prose. The Invention of Greek Ethnography challenges the legitimacy of this conventional narrative. Drawing on recent advances in ethnographic and cultural studies and in the material culture-based analyses of the Ancient Mediterranean, Joseph Skinner argues that ethnographic discourse was already ubiquitous throughout the archaic Greek world, not only in the form of texts but also in a wide range of iconographic and archaeological materials. As such, it can be differentiated both on the margins of the Greek world, like in Olbia and Calabria and in its imagined centers, such as Delphi and Olympia. The reconstruction of this "ethnography before ethnography" demonstrates that discourses of identity and difference played a vital role in defining what it meant to be Greek in the first place long before the fifth century BC. The development of ethnographic writing and historiography are shown to be rooted in this wider process of "positioning" that was continually unfurling across time, as groups and individuals scattered the length and breadth of the Mediterranean world sought to locate themselves in relation to the narratives of the past. This shift in perspective provided by The Invention of Greek Ethnography has significant implications for current understanding of the means by which a sense of Greek identity came into being, the manner in which early discourses of identity and difference should be conceptualized, and the way in which so-called "Great Historiography," or narrative history, should ultimately be interpreted. |
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... Italy's Lost Greece Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology Giovanna Ceserani The Invention of Greek Ethnography From Homer to Herodotus Joseph E. Skinner The Invention of Greek Ethnography From Homer to Herodotus joseph.
... Italy's Lost Greece Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology Giovanna Ceserani The Invention of Greek Ethnography From Homer to Herodotus Joseph E. Skinner The Invention of Greek Ethnography From Homer to Herodotus joseph.
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... Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © Oxford University Press 2012 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1 Ethnography before Ethnography 3 1.1. Published in the United ...
... Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © Oxford University Press 2012 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER 1 Ethnography before Ethnography 3 1.1. Published in the United ...
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... Italian context suggests that an interest in the habits and customs of steppe nomads—be they Scythians or, as interpreted in this case, Amazons—was in fact widespread throughout the region, further evidence is arguably required if we ...
... Italian context suggests that an interest in the habits and customs of steppe nomads—be they Scythians or, as interpreted in this case, Amazons—was in fact widespread throughout the region, further evidence is arguably required if we ...
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... Italy and Sicily. However, their impact has been fairly marginal—or else has yet to be determined—when it comes to the way in which ancient identities are studied and conceptualized throughout Classics as a whole (with the study of ...
... Italy and Sicily. However, their impact has been fairly marginal—or else has yet to be determined—when it comes to the way in which ancient identities are studied and conceptualized throughout Classics as a whole (with the study of ...
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... Italy; see Lomas 2000a, 2000b; 2004b; but not without Hornblower 2008, 53ff. Cf. J. Hall 2004; Burgers 2004; and Blok 2005 on Athens. For Greek identity in the west, see Barron 2004; Braccesi 2004; along with studies by Dominguez and ...
... Italy; see Lomas 2000a, 2000b; 2004b; but not without Hornblower 2008, 53ff. Cf. J. Hall 2004; Burgers 2004; and Blok 2005 on Athens. For Greek identity in the west, see Barron 2004; Braccesi 2004; along with studies by Dominguez and ...
Contents
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CHAPTER 2 Populating the Imaginaire | 59 |
CHAPTER 3 Mapping Ethnography | 111 |
CHAPTER 4 Mapping Identities | 151 |
CHAPTER 5 The Invention of Greek Ethnography | 233 |
Abbreviations | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 327 |
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