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- Title: Understanding Caesar's Ethnography: A Contextual Approach to Protohistory (Liberal Learning at Its Best) (Julius Caesar)
- Author : Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Release Date : January 22, 2002
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 258 KB
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INTRODUCTION: PROTOHISTORY, CLASSICAL TEXTS, AND COLONIAL DISCOURSE The Celts of western and central Europe (1) flourished during the height of Greek and Roman civilization, and yet there is a methodological schism between the study of the Mediterranean world and that of the "peripheral" Europeans. Our appreciation of classical society stems primarily from the plentiful written texts--texts that provide us with minute details of society, religion, and politics from the words of the people who actively participated in that culture. The study of the Celts, on the other hand, is more oblique: our primary source is archaeology, and what little textual evidence we do have derives from Mediterranean historians and geographers. In anthropological terms, classicists study sources written from an emic perspective, while archaeologists study sources written from the etic.