Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World
Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which ca...
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| description | Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered by Rome has been perceived almost entirely through the lenses of Roman ethnographic writing and administrative structures. The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these identities by Rome, was a vital part of the process of Roman imperialism. Comparisons across the empire reveal some similarities in the processes of identity formation during and after the period of Roman conquest, but they also reveal a considerable degree of diversity and localisation in interactions between Romans and others. This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control, and how people living in particular places internalised them and developed their own senses of belonging to an ethnic community. It includes both regional studies and thematic approaches by leading scholars in the field. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-389692025-06-11T08:11:37Z Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World Gardner, Andrew Herring, Edward Lomas, Kathryn Ancient history: to c 500 CE thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered by Rome has been perceived almost entirely through the lenses of Roman ethnographic writing and administrative structures. The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these identities by Rome, was a vital part of the process of Roman imperialism. Comparisons across the empire reveal some similarities in the processes of identity formation during and after the period of Roman conquest, but they also reveal a considerable degree of diversity and localisation in interactions between Romans and others. This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control, and how people living in particular places internalised them and developed their own senses of belonging to an ethnic community. It includes both regional studies and thematic approaches by leading scholars in the field. 2021-02-10T15:00:29Z 2021-02-10T15:00:29Z 2020-05-27T16:44:54Z 2013 book ONIX_20200527_9781905670796_8 ONIX_20200527_9781905670796_8 OCN: 1129014559 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39382 9781905670796 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38969 eng BICS Supplements open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39382/1/9781905670796.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39382/1/9781905670796.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39382/1/9781905670796.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39382/1/9781905670796.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/39382/1/9781905670796.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/917.9781905670796 10.14296/917.9781905670796 3fae60e1-9f6a-42ab-a7ee-73df8c57b4f2 9781905670796 University of London Press 297 London open access |
| spellingShingle | Ancient history: to c 500 CE thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title | Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title_full | Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title_fullStr | Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title_short | Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World |
| title_sort | creating ethnicities identities in the roman world |
| topic | Ancient history: to c 500 CE thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history |
| topic_facet | Ancient history: to c 500 CE thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history |
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