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Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power
Nico Roymans
其他書名
The Batavians in the Early Roman Empire
出版
Amsterdam University Press
, 2004
主題
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
9053567054
9789053567050
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cWdZAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This probing case study examines the evolution of the ethnic identity of the Batavians, a lower Rhineland tribe in the western marches of the Roman Empire. Drawing on extensive historical and archaeological data, Nico Roymans examines how between 50 BCE and 70 CE, the Romans cultivated the Batavians as an ethnic "other" by intensively recruiting them to the Roman army while simultaneously carrying out extermination campaigns against other tribes in the region. Roymans also considers how the status of the Batavian settlement reveals intriguing insights into Roman definitions of "civilization" and "barbarism."
Ethnic Identity and Imperial Power
is a fascinating anthropological study on how ancient frontier peoples negotiated their self-image.