In the Footsteps of Bagira : ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’
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Kletter , R 2014 , ' In the Footsteps of Bagira : ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’ ' , Approaching Religion , vol. 4 , no. 2 , pp. 2-15 . < http://ojs.abo.fi/index.php/ar/issue/view/70 >
| Title: | In the Footsteps of Bagira : ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’ |
| Author: | Kletter, Raz |
| Contributor: | University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology |
| Date: | 2014 |
| Language: | eng |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| Belongs to series: | Approaching Religion |
| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/162140 |
| Abstract: | Archaeology cannot find ethnicity "independently", but only with the help of written sources. The way one defines "ethnicity" is critical to ones' conclusions. Ethnic groups, as a type of imagined community, most likely existed already in prehistory; but without written sources, at least a collective name, we cannot fish them out. The article reviews a series of papers which try, in vain, to 'get' to ethnicity from material remains; and another series which tries, in vain, to prove (or refute) "Iron I Ethnic Israel". Bagira appears in a photo in the text. |
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615 History and Archaeology
ETHNICITY Ethnicity ethnicity IDENTITY Archaeology Iron Age ISRAEL Palestine Israelites Philistines minimalism maximalism Bagira |
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