Cultural history of race in antiquity

  • What is a cultural history of chemistry in antiquity?

    A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity deals with the “chemical manipulation of matter” (p. 14) and the conceptualisation of natural substances in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece from 3000 BCE to 600 CE..

  • Culture - A set of shared ideas, customs, traditions, beliefs, and practices shared by a group of people that is constantly changing, in subtle and major ways.
    Ethnicity - A group of people who identify with one another based on shared culture.

How long did the antiquity era last?

The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems

Who invented race?

It was initiated by Aditi Rao (BC '21) and is now carried forward by Thandiwe Knox ('BC 25) Race is inherently unstable

It is a composite identity not imparted on someone by innate biology but encoded through a series of political, cultural, social, geographical, and moral metamorphoses

Why do archaeologists study ethnic and racial identities?

Insofar as ethnic and racial identities often overlap, the work of archaeologists in exploring the material artifacts of antiquity can provide an important window into past constructions of identity

This is particularly true with reference to non-elites and to women

Cultural history of race in antiquity
Cultural history of race in antiquity

Terms for races in the Bible

Since early modern times, a number of biblical ethnonyms from the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 have been used as a basis for classifying human racial and national identities.
The connection between Genesis 10 and contemporary ethnic groups began during classical antiquity, when authors such as Josephus, Hippolytus and Jerome analyzed the biblical list.

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