The invention of Greek ethnography : from Homer to Herodotus / / Joseph E. Skinner

• Autore: Skinner Joseph (Joseph Edward)
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800938
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Greece - History; Historiography - Greece - History; History, Ancient - Historiography; National characteristics, Greek
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-326) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1 Ethnography before Ethnography""; ""1.1 Framing the Problem: Defining Ethnography""; ""1.2 “Otherâ€? 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""; ""CHAPTER 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""; ""CHAPTER 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""; ""CHAPTER 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 “Readingâ€? Objects, Viewing People: Everyday Activities at the Center of all things “Greekâ€?""; ""4.3.3 Delphi and Colonization""; ""4.3.4 Eclectic Spaces? Material Identities, Intercultural Contact, and Receptions of “Differenceâ€?""; ""CHAPTER 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""""Abbreviations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: 'The Invention of Greek Ethnography' offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.
• Titolo autorizzato: The invention of Greek ethnography
• ISBN: 0-19-979370-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205695003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Greeks Overseas