{"product_id":"ancient-ethnography-new-approaches-9781849668903","title":"Ancient Ethnography: New Approaches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography’s roots go all the way back to antiquity. This volume brings together eleven original essays exploring the wider intellectual and cultural milieux from which ancient ethnography arose, its transformation and development in antiquity, and the way in which 19th century receptions of ethnographic traditions helped shape the modern study of the ancient world. Finally, it addresses the extent to which all these themes remain inextricably intertwined with shifting and often highly contested notions of culture, power and identity. Its chapters deal with the origins of the term ‘barbarian’, the role of ethnography in Tacitus’ \u003ci\u003eGermania\u003c\/i\u003e, Plutarch’s \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e, Xenophon’s \u003ci\u003eAnabasis\u003c\/i\u003e, and Athenaeus’ \u003ci\u003eDeipnosophistae\u003c\/i\u003e, Herodotean storytelling, Henry and George Rawlinson, and Megasthenes’ treatise on India.   At a time when modern ethnographies are becoming increasingly prevalent, wide-ranging, and experimental in their approach to describing cultural difference, this book encourages us to think about ancient ethnography in new and interesting ways, highlighting the wealth of material available for study and the complexities underpinning ancient and modern notions of what it meant to be Greek, Roman or ‘barbarian’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rich and inspiring new collection of articles, counting among its contributors the foremost scholars on ancient ethnographical writing, is a timely demonstration of the state of research in a field which is not only naturally diverse in subject matter, but also undergoing some very significant realignments. * ARCTOS *\u003cbr\u003eThis carefully-edited and well-compiled collection is borne by a fascination with ancient ethnography. * Historische Zeitschrift (Bloomsbury translation) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Eran Almagor and Joseph Skinner  \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Beginnings \u003c\/b\u003e The Invention of the ‘Barbarian’ in Late 6th Century BC  Ionia Hyun Jin Kim (University of Sydney, Australia)  The Stories of the Others: Storytelling and Inter-cultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean  Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham, UK)  \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Responses\u003c\/b\u003e Looking at the Other: Visual Mediation and Greek Identity in Xenophon’s \u003ci\u003eAnabasis\u003c\/i\u003e Rosie Harman (University College London, UK)  Apologetic Ethnography: Megasthenes’ \u003ci\u003eIndica \u003c\/i\u003eand the Seleucid Elephant Paul J. Kosmin (Harvard University, USA)  Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters – A Politics of Ethnography? Jacek Rzepka (Warsaw University, Poland)  \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Transformations\u003c\/b\u003e Ethnography and the Gods in Tacitus' \u003ci\u003eGermania \u003c\/i\u003e Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews, UK)  ‘But This Belongs to Another Discussion’: Ethnographic Digressions in Plutarch Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)  Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus’ \u003ci\u003eDeipnosophistae \u003c\/i\u003e Katerina Oikonomopoulou (University of Patras, Greece)  \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Receptions\u003c\/b\u003e Imperial Visions, Imagined Pasts: Ethnography and Identity on India's North-Western Frontier Joseph Skinner (University of Newcastle, UK)  Exploring Virgin Fields: Henry and George Rawlinson on Ancient and Modern Orient Thomas Harrison (University of Liverpool, UK)  The Scope of Ancient Ethnography Emma Dench (Harvard University, USA)  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191411368279,"sku":"9781849668903","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-ethnography-new-approaches-9781849668903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}