Ancient Ethnicity and Modern Identity

Siapkas, Johannes

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“…6 In this regard, the contribution of reception studies to our understanding of these trajectories remains underrated, since the modern academic discipline of Roman history itself is a category of reception. For a range of positions on race and ethnicity in the Roman world: Gruen 2020 and Gardner et al 2013; for studies on postclassical interpretations of ancient race and ethnicity and their implications : Isaac 2004;McCoskey 2012;Siapkas 2014; Kennedy forthcoming. 7 One example is the recent decision at the University of California Berkeley's former Department of Classics to change its name to the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies.…”

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Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the Roman Empire

Ramgopal

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the Roman Empire

Ramgopal

2022

J. Rom. Stud.

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“…Suffice to say, that archaeological cultures, peoples and races, as well as archaeological periods, are conceptualized as clear-cut bounded monolithic entities in culture-historical archaeology. Another epistemological assumption in culturehistorical archaeology is that a people retain a core of deep-seated essential characteristic traits throughout history (see Jones 1997: 15-25;Siapkas 2003: 46-59;2014). Furthermore, the distribution of characteristic archaeological finds and archaeological cultures reflects the distribution of a people according to the logic of culturehistorical archaeology (Siapkas 2014: 69).…”

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Skulls from the Past: Archaeological Negotiations of Scientific Racism

Siapkas

2016

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

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This paper examines the permeation of scientific racism in classical archaeology during the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, it investigates the anthropological studies of graves from the Swedish excavations at Asine and the British excavations at Mycenae and the appropriation of these results in classical archaeology. Terms like archaeological culture, people, race, in general and in precise forms, were used metonymically to signify clear-cut bounded entities with diachronically immutable characteristic traits. I argue that there were epistemological similarities between scientific racism and culture-historical archaeology since both are founded on essentialism.This article has further epistemological implications since it illustrates that foundational analytical practices, like categorizations and constructions of archaeological cultures, have conceptual affinities with discourses that many of us today find troubling. This can serve to foster critical reflection and to illustrate that histories of archaeology can contribute to the advancement of the epistemology of archaeology.

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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs

Matić

2020

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Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs deals with ancient Egyptian concept of collective identity, various groups which inhabited the Egyptian Nile Valley and different approaches to ethnic identity in the last two hundred years of Egyptology. The aim is to present the dynamic processes of ethnogenesis of the inhabitants of the land of the pharaohs, and to place various approaches to ethnic identity in their broader scholarly and historical context. The dominant approach to ethnic identity in ancient Egypt is still based on culture historical method. This and other theoretically better framed approaches (e.g. instrumentalist approach, habitus, postcolonial approach, ethnogenesis, intersectionality) are discussed using numerous case studies from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BC. Finally, this Element deals with recent impact of third science revolution on archaeological research on ethnic identity in ancient Egypt.

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Ancient Ethnicity and Modern Identity

Cited by 8 publications

References 44 publications

Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the Roman Empire

Connectivity and Disconnectivity in the Roman Empire

Skulls from the Past: Archaeological Negotiations of Scientific Racism

Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs

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