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The World through Roman Eyes

Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture

William Michael Short editor Maurizio Bettini editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Oct '18

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Showcases the fundamental contribution that anthropology has made to our understanding of ancient Roman culture.

The culmination of a project aimed at showcasing, in a systematic way, the potential of applying anthropological perspectives to classical studies, this volume highlights the fundamental contribution this approach has to make to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Through the close study of themes such as myth, polytheism, sacrifice, magic, space, kinship, the gift, friendship, economics, animals, plants, riddles, metaphors, and images in Roman society (often in comparison with Greece) - where the texts of ancient culture are allowed to speak in their own terms and where the experience of the natives (rather than the horizon of the observer) is privileged - a rich panorama emerges of the worldview, beliefs, and deep structures that shaped and guided this culture.

'… this edited volume makes an important original contribution to cultural studies, and the authors' embedding of historical analysis in anthropological theory and comparative analysis yields new insights regarding the classical world … Highly recommended.' M. T. Stark, Choice

ISBN: 9781107157613

Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm

Weight: 830g

482 pages