Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity,9780521789998

Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

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ISBN13: 9780521789998
ISBN10: 0521789990
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-26
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The purpose of this book is to show that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural, but social groups whose "origins" in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. This is the first study to treat the subject from a truly interdisciplinary point of view, embracing literature, myth, archaeology, linguistics and social anthropology. It also outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

Table of Contents

List of figures
xi
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations used in the text and bibliography xvi
Phrasing the problem
1(16)
Introduction
1(3)
The Dorians in a `sociology of knowledge'
4(13)
The nature and expression of ethnicity: an anthropological view
17(17)
The rise and fall of instrumentalism
17(2)
Defining the ethnic group
19(7)
The genesis and maintenance of ethnic groups
26(6)
Summary
32(2)
The discursive dimension of ethnic identity
34(33)
Ethnic groups in ancient Greece
34(6)
Myths of ethnic origins
40(11)
The Athenians: Ionians or autochthons?
51(5)
Dorians and Herakleidai
56(9)
Conclusion
65(2)
Ethnography and genealogy: an Argolic case-study
67(44)
The ethnic populations of the Argolid
67(10)
The genealogies of the Argolid
77(6)
Decoding the genealogical grammar
83(6)
Staking the Heraklid claim
89(10)
Ethnicity and cult: Hera, Herakles and the Herakleidai
99(7)
Conclusion
106(5)
Ethnicity and archaeology
111(32)
Excavating the ethnic group
111(3)
Archaeology and the `Dorian invasion'
114(14)
Ethnic groups and archaeological cultures
128(3)
The archaeology of social praxis
131(11)
Conclusion
142(1)
Ethnicity and linguistics
143(39)
Scripts and alphabets
143(10)
Greek dialect history: a synopsis
153(9)
Problematising linguistic diversity
162(8)
The Greek attitude to dialect
170(7)
The role of language in ethnicity
177(3)
Conclusion
180(2)
Conclusion
182(4)
Chronological table 186(2)
Chronological table of authors cited in the text 188(2)
Bibliography 190(23)
Index 213

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