McInerney J. (ed.) A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 600 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World).A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world.Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and Israel, to Greece and Rome, and into Late Antiquity
Features cutting-edge research on ethnicity relating to Philistine, Etruscan, and Phoenician identities
Reveals the explicit relationships between ancient and modern ethnicities
Introduces an interpretation of ethnicity as an active component of social identity
Represents a fundamental questioning of formally accepted and fixed categories in the fieldNotes on ContributorsEthnicity: An Introduction
Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mediterranean Archaeology and Ethnicity
Ethnicity and World-Systems Analysis
Ancient Ethnicity and Modern Identity
Bronze Age Identities: From Social to Cultural and Ethnic Identity
Networks and Ethnogenesis
Ethnic Identities, Borderlands, and Hybridity
Hittites and Anatolian Ethnic Diversity
Hybridity, Hapiru, and the Archaeology of Ethnicity in Second Millennium BCE Western Asia
Ethnicity in Empire: Assyrians and Others
Achaemenids, Royal Power, and Persian Ethnicity
Nubian and Egyptian Ethnicity
The Study of Greek Ethnic Identities
Ethnicity and Local Myth
Autochthony in Ancient Greece
Ethnicity and the Stage
Ethnos and Koinon
Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency
Ethnicity and Geography
Black Sea Ethnicities
Greeks and Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean
Herodotus and Ethnicity
Ethnicity and Representation
Ethnicity: Greeks, Jews, and Christians
Greek Ethnicity and the Second Sophistic
Ethnicity and the Etruscans
Romans and Jews
Romans and Italians
Roman Elite Ethnicity
Ethnicity in Roman Religion
Ethnicity and Gender
Ethnicity in the Roman Northwest
Lucanians and Southern Italy
Who Are You? Africa and Africans
Becoming Roman Again: Roman Ethnicity and Italian Identity
Goths and Huns