A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ethnicity 3 My second example is more simple: one of the largest Hispanic advocacy groups in the United States is called La Raza ...

4 Jeremy McInerney Piraeus—concludes that in diaspora and, we might say, cosmopolitan communities, “cultural phenomena like law, ...

Ethnicity 5 ancient Phoenician populations, Zalloua et al. (2008) express the confidence of the scientific approach: The Phoenic ...

6 Jeremy McInerney “ethnicity” is a term to be used cautiously, and that in many settings it cannot be divorced from deep-seated ...

Ethnicity 7 parts of the world-system. A chapter that rounds out the portion of the volume devoted to broad approaches is Johann ...

8 Jeremy McInerney light on the Philistines but has also generated a heated debate over the very emergence of a coherent Israeli ...

Ethnicity 9 myth in Boiotia to understand the importance of storytelling in shaping not only ethnic identity but the political d ...

10 Jeremy McInerney evidence to see collaboration rather than antagonism as the basic tendency of the indige- nous populations’ ...

Liguri Hibernians Caledoni Britons Silures Dumnoni Veneti Belgae Treveri Cantabrians Aquitani Vascones Lusitani Tartessians Iber ...

12 Jeremy McInerney self-ascribed identity. It becomes a basic mode of argument in which history and religion are polemically bl ...

Ethnicity 13 even these two chapters, approaching Romans and Italians but from different points of view, barely scratch the surf ...

14 Jeremy McInerney elsewhere, we remain prey to the paucity of evidence from the ancient world, but, as Brent Shaw’s chapter de ...

Ethnicity 15 yet it is the ability of ethnicity to link these apparent polarities that makes it so marked a feature of both the ...

16 Jeremy McInerney Isaac, Benjamin. 2004.The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Pres ...

CHAPTER 2 Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean Harald Haarmann Introduction The relationship of ethnicity and lan ...

18 Harald Haarmann Language as a Marker of Ethnic Identity As a major marker of ethnicity, language occupies a crucial role in t ...

Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean 19 of identification in its broadest sense is equal to the mental constructi ...

20 Harald Haarmann of identity has to be regarded as the basic theory of all the humanities, on which the more specialized ethno ...

Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean 21 In an overall scheme for comprehending the collective identity of populat ...

22 Harald Haarmann (f) Phenomenological markers of ethnicity (i) Parameters of self-identification (i.e., attitudes toward myths ...