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Tales of the Barbarians
Greg Woolf
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeines, Lexika
Beschreibung
Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. * Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West * Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local experts * Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light
Rezensionen
"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancient ethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries."
"Woolf has rendered the topic in crisp and elegant prose. This reviewer suspects that, like good ancient ethnography, Woolf's contribution will very soon take on a life of its own."
"W. provides new insights into ancient texts, and stimulating new ways of looking at these ancient views of barbarians -- chasing his 'middle ground' provides an exciting challenge for Romanists working with other fields of evidence."
"With Greg Woolf's brief Tales of the Barbarians we are at peace, but constantly made to sit up, not only by single opinions but by the overall ways in which Woolf asks us to read the material, in particular by his convincing stress on 'the middle ground' where explorers and natives have met, in western Europe and America."
"Greg Woolf's wide-ranging and engaging study of ethnographic traditions about the "barbarian" west exposes the complex mixture of myth, stereotype, and information deriving from the interplay between inquirers and inhabitants and from the shifting circumstances that generated their creation and their transformation."
Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley
"Woolf dissects Greek and Roman ethnological accounts to give a voice to the otherwise silent people Rome conquered and analyses the role of myths in empire building."
David Breeze, The University of Edinburgh
Kundenbewertungen
Anthropologie / Theorie u. Methoden, Ethnographie, Geschichtsschreibung, History, Anthropology, Methoden der Geschichtsforschung u. Geschichtsschreibung, Historical Methods & Historiography, Antike, Anthropological Theory & Methods/Ethnography, Geschichte, Anthropologie