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The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the
Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought
to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early
natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining
'environment' broadly to include not only physical but also
cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume
considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood
to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples, as
well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve
a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not
only of the Greco-Roman world, but also ancient China and the
European, Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical
thought. In recent years, work in this subject has been confined
mostly to the discussion of texts that reflect an approach to the
barbarian as 'other'. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the
Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds takes the
discussion of ethnicity on a fresh course, contextualising the
concept of the barbarian within rational discourses such as
cartography, medicine, and mathematical sciences, an approach that
allows us to more clearly discern the varied and nuanced approaches
to ethnic identity which abounded in antiquity. The innovative and
thought-provoking material in this volume realises new directions
in the study of identity in the Classical and Medieval worlds.
The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the
Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought
to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early
natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining
'environment' broadly to include not only physical but also
cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume
considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood
to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples, as
well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve
a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not
only of the Greco-Roman world, but also ancient China and the
European, Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical
thought. In recent years, work in this subject has been confined
mostly to the discussion of texts that reflect an approach to the
barbarian as 'other'. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the
Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds takes the
discussion of ethnicity on a fresh course, contextualising the
concept of the barbarian within rational discourses such as
cartography, medicine, and mathematical sciences, an approach that
allows us to more clearly discern the varied and nuanced approaches
to ethnic identity which abounded in antiquity. The innovative and
thought-provoking material in this volume realises new directions
in the study of identity in the Classical and Medieval worlds.
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