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This daring and unique quantity explores subject matters of ethnicity and ethnogenesis within the societies of the traditional global. It begins with a present view held by means of many within the social and ancient sciences, particularly that ethnicity is a subjective suggestion formed via an interplay with the ethnic different. The 13 essays amassed the following research ancient, epigraphic, and archaeological resource fabric for you to contemplate the dynamic nature of ethnic formations through the years, and diversity thematically from archaic Greece to early medieval Western Europe.
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130 Isaakidou/Halstead/Davis/Stocker 2002; on dining, see 134 The evidence is reviewed by Eder 2003; see also Papa- Killen 1994. 131 dopoulos 1999. Eder 2001a; Eder 2001b; Kyrieleis 2002. the ancient Greek world from the standpoint of what has been achieved in the social sciences, we have far to go in exploring the full potential of the material record in particular. This article has ranged widely in presenting issues central to the formulation of effective research designs appropriate to the circumstances of the southern and central Greek mainland.
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116 Siewert 2001, 245-249. Thür/Taeuber 1994, no. 8; Taeuber 1987-1988, 354-355; 117 I owe this observation to Jim Roy; on the form and crea- Thür 2001, including a review of previous interpreta114 Morgan 2003, 75-76, 80. Elis: Eder/Mitsopoulou-Leon tion of perioikic relationships, see Roy 1997 and 2002. tions. 118 Morgan 2003, 142-155. Hölkeskamp 2000. 119 Morgan 2003, chapter 4. and how many other groups were involved), and in what ways and with what frequency were group members thus required to measure the social distance which separated them from the ‘others’ whom they encountered?
