Ancient Ethnography

Eran Almagor is Lecturer in History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.Joseph Skinner is Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University, UK.

• IntroductionEran Almagor and Joseph SkinnerPart 1: Beginnings The Invention of the ‘Barbarian’ in Late 6th Century BC Ionia Hyun Jin Kim (University of Sydney, Australia)The Stories of the Others: Storytelling and Inter-cultural Communication in the Herodotean Mediterranean Kostas Vlassopoulos (University of Nottingham, UK)Part 2: ResponsesLooking at the Other: Visual Mediation and Greek Identity in Xenophon’s AnabasisRosie Harman (University College London, UK)Apologetic Ethnography: Megasthenes’ Indica and the Seleucid ElephantPaul J. Kosmin (Harvard University, USA)Monstrous Aetolians and Aetolian Monsters – A Politics of Ethnography?Jacek Rzepka (Warsaw University, Poland)Part 3: TransformationsEthnography and the Gods in Tacitus' Germania Greg Woolf (University of St. Andrews, UK)‘But This Belongs to Another Discussion’: Ethnographic Digressions in PlutarchEran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)Ethnography and Authorial Voice in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae Katerina Oikonomopoulou (University of Patras, Greece)Part 4: ReceptionsImperial Visions, Imagined Pasts: Ethnography and Identity on India's North-Western FrontierJoseph Skinner (University of Newcastle, UK)Exploring Virgin Fields: Henry and George Rawlinson on Ancient and Modern OrientThomas Harrison (University of Liverpool, UK)The Scope of Ancient EthnographyEmma Dench (Harvard University, USA)Index

This rich and inspiring new collection of articles, counting among its contributors the foremost scholars on ancient ethnographical writing, is a timely demonstration of the state of research in a field which is not only naturally diverse in subject matter, but also undergoing some very significant realignments.