The Greeks and Us A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 31.90
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2007
Verlag
WileySeitenzahl
184
Maße (L/B/H)
22.7/15.5/1.3 cm
Gewicht
358 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7456-3901-7
In this path-breaking new volume, the great French historian Marcel Detienne focuses on Eurocentric approaches which have trumpeted the Greeks and their democratic practices as our ancestors and the superiority of the Western tradition to which they gave rise. He argues that such approaches can be seen as narrow-minded and often covertly nationalistic. Detienne advocates what he calls comparative anthropology which sets out to illuminate the comparisons and contrasts between the beliefs, practices and institutions of different ancient and modern societies. Detienne aims to put the Greeks in perspective among other civilisations and also to look afresh at questions of political structure, literacy, nationhood, intellect and mythology.
The work of Marcel Detienne has made an enormous impact on our thinking about the Greeks in areas such as rationality, literacy and mythology, and in this new volume he challenges once again our conception of the Greeks and their impact on the modern world.
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