Title Fabrications of the Greek past : religion, tradition, and the making of modern identities / by Vaia Touna.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 174 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion ; volume 9
	Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; v. 9.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A complicated affair -- Gloria Patri: the construction of the modern self -- Matters of classification: the case of "mysteries" -- Representations of the ruined past: making self and other -- Traditioning acts of identification: the case of Greek "traditional" villages -- The ever-present past.
Summary	In Fabrications of the Greek Past, Vaia Touna demonstrates that meanings of past material artifacts found in the present are historical products created by social actors through their always-contemporary acts of identification, such as their interpretations, categorizations, representations, and classifications.
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Subject	Greece -- Religion -- Historiography.
	Greece.
	Historiography.
	Religion.
	HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
	Religion -- Historiography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Touna, Vaia. Fabrications of the Greek past. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004348608 (DLC) 2017016219 (OCoLC)982652162
ISBN	9789004348615 (electronic book)
	9004348611 (electronic book)
	9789004348608 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	9004348603