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The Invention of Greek Ethnography - From Homer to Herodotus (Paperback)
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The Invention of Greek Ethnography - From Homer to Herodotus (Paperback)
Series: Greeks Overseas
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Greek knowledge of and interest in foreign peoples is commonly
believed to have developed in conjunction with a wider sense of
"Greekness" that emerged during the Hellenic encounter with
Achaemenid Persia during the late sixth to early fifth centuries
BC. The dramatic nature of this "clash of cultures" is widely
thought to have laid the foundations for prose descriptions of
foreign lands and peoples by causing previously vague imaginings to
crystallize into a diametric opposition between "Hellene" and
"barbarian." The Invention of Greek Ethnography challenges the
legitimacy of this narrative. Drawing on recent advances in
ethnographic and cultural studies and material culture-based
analyses of the ancient Mediterranean, Joseph Skinner argues that
ethnographic discourse was already widespread throughout the
archaic Greek world long before the invention of ethnographic
prose, incorporating not only texts but also a wide range of
iconographic and archaeological materials. The reconstruction of
this "ethnography before ethnography" demonstrates that discourses
of identity played a vital role in defining what it meant to be
Greek in the first place. The development of ethnographic writing
and historiography is shown to be rooted in a wider process of
"positioning" that was continually unfurling across time, as groups
and individuals scattered across the Mediterranean world sought to
locate themselves in relation to both the narratives of the past
and other people. The Invention of Greek Ethnography provides a
shift in critical perspective that will have significant
implications for our understanding of how Greek identity came into
being, the manner in which early discourses of difference should be
conceptualized, and the way in which narrative history should
ultimately be interpreted.
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