A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

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 Antiquity Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the field Ethnicity : An Introduction / Jeremy Mcinerney -- Ethnicity And Language In The Ancient Mediterranean / Harald Haarmann -- Mediterranean Archaeology And Ethnicity / A. Bernard Knapp -- Ethnicity And World-systems Analysis / Thomas D. Hall -- Ancient Ethnicity And Modern Identity / Johannes Siapkas -- Bronze Age Identities : From Social To Cultural And Ethnic Idenitty / Kristian Kristiansen -- Networks And Ethnogenesis / Anna C. F. Collar -- Ethnic Identities, Borderlands, And Hybridity / Gary Reger -- Hittites And Anatolian Ethnic Diversity / Trevor R. Bryce -- Hybridity, Hapiru, And The Archaeology Of Ethnicity In Second Millennium Bce Western Asia / Ann E. Killebrew -- Ethnicity In Empire : Assyrians And Others / Geoff Emberling -- Achaemenids, Royal Power, And Persian Ethnicity / Jennifer Gates-foster -- Nubian And Egyptian Ethnicity / Stuart Tyson Smith -- The Study Of Greek Ethnic Identities / Nino Luraghi -- Ethnicity And Local Myth / Angela Ganter, Née Kühr --^ Autochthony In Ancient Greece / James Roy -- Ethnicity And The Stage / Efi Papadodima -- Ethnos And Koinon / Emily Mackil -- Messenia, Ethnic Identity, And Contingency / Alexander Thein -- Ethnicity And Geography / Philip Kaplan -- Black Sea Ethnicities / Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- Greeks And Phoenicians In The Western Mediterranean / Corinne Bonnet -- Herodotus And Ethnicity / Rosaria Vignolo Munson -- Ethnicity And Representation / S. Rebecca Martin -- Ethnicity : Greeks, Jews, And Christians / Aaron P. Johnson -- Greek Ethnicity And The Second Sophistic / Adam M. Kemezis -- Ethnicity And The Etruscans / Nancy T. De Grummond -- Romans And Jews / Erich S. Gruen -- Romans And Italians / Gary D. Farney -- Roman Elite Ethnicity / Parshia Lee-stecum -- Ethnicity In Roman Religion / Jörg Rüpke -- Ethnicity And Gender / Kathryn Lomas -- Ethnicity In The Roman Northwest / Ursula Rothe -- Lucanians And Southern Italy / John W. Wonder -- Who Are You? : Africa And Africans / Brent D. Shaw --^ Becoming Roman Again : Roman Ethnicity And Italian Identity / Valentina Follo -- Goths And Huns / Walter Pohl. Edited By Jeremy Mcinerney. Includes Bibliographical References At End Of Contributions And Index. "In recent years, ethnic conflicts and "ethnic cleansing" have become all-too familiar topics in the news and have focused renewed academic attention on the subject of ethnic identity. A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays that explore questions relating to ethnicity and cultural identity in the societies if the ancient Mediterranean world. Featuring contributions from a wide range of Ancient Studies scholars and specialists from around the world, chapters span diverse civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, through Greece and Rome, into Late Antiquity. Essays explore modern theories of ethnic identity formation and reveal the perennial complexity of questions relating to ethnicity. A discussion of ethnicity by ancient and modern writers also offers a vector of interpretation vital to the understanding of many foundational cultures. Scholarly and thought-provoking, A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean offers extraordinary insights into the roots of ancient ethnic identities and their links to the modern world." -- Publisher's description