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The invention of Greek ethnography : from Homer to Herodotus

'The Invention of Greek Ethnography' offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history
Print Book, English, ©2012
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2012
History
xi, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780199793600, 0199793603
722450912
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ethnography before Ethnography
1.1.Framing the Problem: Defining Ethnography
1.2."Other" Ethnographies
1.3.Ethnography (re) Defined
1.4.Approaches to (Greek) Identity
1.5.Structuring Discourse, Inventing Genre: Felix Jacoby and Greek Ethnography
1.6.Ethnography and Identity
1.7.Polarities Deconstructed
1.8.Setting Sail: Homeric Paradigms and the Economies of Knowledge
ch. 2 Populating the Imaginaire
2.1.Phaeacians and Cyclopes
2.2.Hyperboreans
2.3.Arimaspians
2.4.Scythians
2.5.Amazons
2.6.Thracians
2.7.Phoenicians
2.8.Lydians
2.9.Ethiopians
2.10.Egyptians
2.11.Pelasgians
2.12.Arcadia
ch. 3 Mapping Ethnography
3.1.Naming and Describing
3.1.1.Epithets
3.1.2.Stereotyping
3.2.listing and Imagining
3.3.Enquiring
3.4.Celebrating Place and People
3.4.1.Epinicia
3.4.2.Greek Coinage and its Reception
3.5.Visualizing
3.6.Consuming Ch. 4 Mapping Identities
4.1.Between Boundless Steppe and a Welcoming Sea: Olbia and its Environs
4.1.1.Negotiated Heterogeneity: From Earliest Contacts to the Fifth Century B.C
4.1.2.Points of Contact and Receptions of Difference
4.2.Reconstructing Identities in Southern Calabria: An Archaeology of discourse
4.2.1.Framing the Argument: Contact, Interaction, and Systems of Exchange
4.2.2.Landscape and Identity in Southern Calabria
4.2.3.Materials in Circulation, Ideas in Play
4.2.4.The Play of Identities, Knowledge, and Difference
4.2.5.Notions of Place
4.2.6.The Case for Difference: The Western Locrians
4.2.7.Conflict, Connectivity, and Exchange: The View from the Margins
4.3.The Imagined Centre: Identity and Difference at Delphi and Olympia
4.3.1.(Re)constructing Difference at Delphi and Olympia
4.3.2."Reading" Objects, Viewing People: Everyday Activities at the Center of all things "Greek"
4.3.3.Delphi and Colonization 4.3.4.Eclectic Spaces? Material Identities, Intercultural Contact, and Receptions of "Difference"
ch. 5 The Invention of Greek Ethnography
5.1.Ethnography and Identity, from Homer to Herodotus
5.2.Inventing the Greek
5.3.Ancient Ethnography: Future Directions, New Approaches