Ethnic constructs in antiquity: the role of power and tradition
Abstract: This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a subjective construct that is shaped through interaction with an ethnic 'other'. The 13 essays collected in this volume are based on the analysis of historical, epigraphic and archaeological source material and thematically range from Archaic Greece to Early Mediaeval Western Europe. Despite frequent claims by ethnic groups to the contrary, all ethnic formations are intrinsically unstable and dynamic over time. Much of this dynamism is to be understood in close association with conflict, violence and changing constellations of power. The explicit theoretical framework, together with the wide range of case-studies makes this volume indispensable for historians, archaeologists and social scientists with an interest in the ancient world
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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9789089640789
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Online-Ressource, 368 S.
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Amsterdam Archaeological Studies ; Bd. 13
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Veröffentlichung
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Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Univ. Press
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2009
- Contributor
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-271832
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST
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Associated
- Derks, Ton
- Roymans, Nico
- Amsterdam Univ. Press
Time of origin
- 2009
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Ethnic distribution, effective power and conflict
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Rituals of power : from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Ethnic constructs in antiquity: the role of power and tradition
Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity
Ethnic constructs, royal dynasties and historical geography around the Black Sea littoral
Constructs of social security: modernity and tradition in West Africa
Constructs of social security: modernity and tradition in West Africa
Antiquity.
Theurgy in late antiquity : the invention of a ritual tradition
The tradition of women's autobiography : from antiquity to the present
Notes from the field: tradition [The tradition of the new. Alois Riegl's late antiquity]
Ethnic distribution, effective power and conflict
Tyrannicides (Antiquity)
Rituals of power : from late antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Ethnic constructs in antiquity: the role of power and tradition
Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity
Ethnic constructs, royal dynasties and historical geography around the Black Sea littoral
Constructs of social security: modernity and tradition in West Africa
Constructs of social security: modernity and tradition in West Africa
Antiquity.
Theurgy in late antiquity : the invention of a ritual tradition
The tradition of women's autobiography : from antiquity to the present
Notes from the field: tradition [The tradition of the new. Alois Riegl's late antiquity]
Ethnic distribution, effective power and conflict
Tyrannicides (Antiquity)