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Studies of the peoples of Anatolia take for granted the existence and importance of regional ethnic communities on the peninsula when investigating issues of identity, ethnic origins, and cultural assimilation (especially Hellenization). In reviewing the scholarship, Jeremy LaBuff argues that such assumptions lead to problematic conclusions that ignore or poorly apply recent theoretical work on ethnicity and current critiques of the assimilation model. A critical consideration of this work leads to an appreciation for the somewhat limited, and at times non-existent, role of regional ethnicity to the experiences of the inhabitants and communities of Anatolia, who mainly promoted more local forms of belonging in the face of the attempted orderings of ethnographic and imperial discourses.

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Jeremy LaBuff, Ph.D. (2010), is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Arizona University. He has published several articles and one monograph, Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia (Lexington, 2016), on the Anatolian region of Karia, and is currently working on a study of Anatolian indigenous communities during the Hellenistic period.

The Peoples of Anatolia
Jeremy LaBuff

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 1 Introduction
 2 Defining the Peoples of Anatolia
 3 Origins
 4 Hellenization and Other Forms of Acculturation
 5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
General Index
All interested in the history of the inhabitants of Anatolia from the Bronze Age to the Imperial Roman period, and anyone concerned with questions of ethnicity and cultural change, especially Hellenization, in the ancient Mediterranean.
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