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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

By Jeremy McInerney

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2014
ISBN
1444337343, 9781444337341
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8684909 bytes)
Series
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Edition
1
Pages
600\598
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-06-19 21:13:14

Description

A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world.Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late AntiquityFeatures cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identitiesReveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicitiesIntroduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identityRepresents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field

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