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The Routledge Companion to Strabo
The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author writing at the prime of Roman expansion and political empowerment. While his earlier historiographical composition is almost entirely lost, his major opus of the Geography includes an encyclopaedic look at the entire world known at the time: numerous ethnographic, topographic, historical, mythological, botanical, and zoological details, and much more. This volume offers various insights to the literary and historical context of the man and his world. The Companion, in twenty-eight chapters written by an international group of scholars, examines several aspects of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly environment in which he was active, his choices as an author, and his ideas of history and geography. This selection of ongoing Strabonian studies is an invaluable resource not just for students and scholars of Strabo himself, but also for anyone interested in ancient geography and in the world of the early Roman Empire.
Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World
The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the ancients' knowledge of species diversity are the main cores of the research. The aim is to interrogate historical sources and diverse evidence and to analyse political and socioeconomic structures, according to a reading focused on possible antecedents, cultural prodromes, alignments of thought or divergencies, with respect to major modern environmental problems and current ecological conceptuali...
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
Old Names, New Peoples: Listing Ethnonyms in Late Antiquity
No people is nameless, and lists of words are as old as writing systems. And yet, both subjects can appear unpromising to historians. This volume shows the contrary by examining the various meanings and functions of ethnonyms in Late Antiquity: added to catalogues of provinces, they reflect the political messages and the regulating power of the imperial bureaucracy; included in schoolbooks, they mirror educational practices and reveal the geographical and ethnic landscapes taught at school; placed on a map, they help make sense of the world in times of transition.
Spatial Thinking and External Representation
Spatial knowledge takes different forms in different societies and at different times in history depending on the spatial experiences accounted for and the available means for the external representation of knowledge. The volume presents and analyses manifestations of spatial thinking in the language and practices of recent non-literate societies, in the administrative institutions of early civilizations, in discursive contexts of ancient Greece and China, in early modern natural philosophy and metaphysics, and in twentieth-century physics, and discusses their historical and structural relations.
Spatial Semiotics and Spatial Mental Models
This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on. It combines different disciplines to capture the intricacies of spatial orientation and navigation. Also, the interplay between culture through language and practices presents new insights in the importance of combining cognitive semantics with cognitive anthropology.
Conceptual Transfer as an Areal Factor
Mainland Southeast Asia unifies languages and varieties out of genetically diverse language families. Nevertheless, the area is known as a prime example for linguistic convergence. By analyzing conceptual transfer this book offers new insight in are
Features of Common Sense Geography
Xenophon's Anabasis and the common Greek mental modelling of spaces / Anca Dan -- Hierotopia and ethno-geography: (para-)scriptural traditions and landscape perception / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Berossos on Kos from the view of common sense geography Markham J. Geller -- The achievements of common sense geography / Kurt Guckelsberger -- Towards a cognitive-linguistic reconstruction of the spatial orientation in ancient texts: the example of Dionysius Periegetes / Ekaterina Ilyushechkina & Günther Görz & Martin Thiering -- Implicit knowledge structures as mental models in common sense geography / Martin Thiering
Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau (1935-1940)
Diese Arbeit untersucht den kolonialrevisionistischen Diskurs und die damit verbundenen rassistischen Praktiken gegenüber Schwarzen im NS-Regime. Im Mittelpunkt dessen steht die Deutsche Afrika-Schau. Diese zwischen Varieté und Völkerschau angesiedelte Wanderschau, in der in Deutschland lebende schwarze Menschen auftraten, wurde von 1936 bis zu ihrem Verbot 1940 zunehmend staatlich kontrolliert. Das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen rassistischer Ausschließung und kolonialrevisionistischer Instrumentalisierung, das die Schau durchzog, eröffnete den Schaumitgliedern einen prekären, maßgeblich von den Kategorien 'Rasse' und 'Geschlecht' bestimmten Handlungsraum. Dieser wurde Ende der 1930er-Jahre zu einem Ort postkolonialer Auseinandersetzungen um Erinnerung und nationale Zugehörigkeit.
