We and they : decolonizing Greco-Roman and biblical antiquities /
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Imprint: | Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2019] ©2019 |
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Description: | 151 pages ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity (ASMA) ; XIV Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 14. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12277596 |
Varying Form of Title: | Decolonizing Greco-Roman and biblical antiquities Decolonizing Greco-Roman and biblical antiquities |
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Other authors / contributors: | Cahana-Blum, Jonathan, editor. MacKendrick, Karmen, 1962- editor. |
ISBN: | 9788771844436 8771844430 |
Notes: | Papers presented at a conference at Aarhus University Conference Center, Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark, August 2016. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Summary: | The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors. |
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