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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Map; Introduction: identity and the environment in the classical and medieval worlds; PART I Ethnic identity and the body; 1 Airs, waters, metals, earth: people and land in Archaic and classical Greek thought; 2 The ecology of health in Herodotus, Dicaearchus, and Agatharchides; 3 The invention and application of racial deformity; 4 Ethnic bodies: physiognomy, identity and the environment; 5 Health as a criterion in ancient ethnological schemes |
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6 The fixed and the fluent: geographical determinism, ethnicity, and religion c. 1100-1300 CE7 The Greek theory of climate in medieval Jewish thought: absorption, influence, and application; PART II Determined and determining ethnicity; 8 Colonisation, nostos, and the foreign environment in Xenophon's; 9 The world in a pill: local specialties and global remedies in the Graeco-Roman world; 10 Vitruvius, landscape, and heterotopias: how 'otherspaces' enrich Roman identity; 11 Tribal identity in the Roman world: the case of the Psylloi |
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12 Overcoming environmental determinism: introduced species, hybrid plants and animals, and transformed lands in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds13 Who reads the stars? Origen of Alexandria on ethnic reasoning and astrological discourse; 14 Climate and courage; 15 Nationality, religious belief, geographical identity, and sociopolitical awareness in Abraham Ibn Ezra's astrological thought; 16 The lost origins of the Daylamites: the construction of a new ethnic legacy for the Buyids; PART III Mapping ethnicity; 17 Location and dislocation in early Greek geography and ethnography |
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18 The terrain of autochthony: shaping the Athenian landscape in the late fifth century BCE19 Modeling ethnicity: patterns of ethnic evaluation in the Indian records of Alexander's companions and Megasthenes; 20 Those happy people: Arabia Felix and the astrological oikoumene of Claudius Ptolemaeus; 21 'Ugly as sin': monsters and barbarians in late antiquity; 22 "Their lands are peripheral and their qi is blocked up": the uses of environmental determinism in Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Chinese interpretations of the 'barbarians' |
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Human ecology -- History -- To 1500
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Social ecology -- History -- To 1500
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Group identity -- History -- To 1500
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Group identity
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Human ecology
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Social ecology
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennedy, Rebecca Futo, 1974- editor.
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Jones-Lewis, Molly, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317415695 |
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1317415698 |
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9781317415701 |
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1317415701 |
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9781317415688 |
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131741568X |
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