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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Greeks overseasPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: �2012Description: 1 online resource (xi, 343 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199793709 (electronic bk.)
  • 0199793700 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invention of Greek ethnographyDDC classification:
  • 305.800938 23
LOC classification:
  • DF135 .S55 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-326) and index.

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.

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