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3. Mediterraneans 64
David Abulafia
1. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Sea. 64
2. The Classic Mediterranean and its sub-Mediterraneans. 67
3. Neighbouring Mediterraneans:
the Saharan Mediterranean Desert. 75
4. The Mediterranean of the North. 76
5. The Mediterranean Atlantic. 80
6. A trans-oceanic Mediterranean: the Caribbean. 82
7. The Japanese Mediterranean. 85
8. The Indian Ocean as a Braudelian problem. 90
9. Comparative Mediterraneans. 91
4. Ecology and Beyond: The Mediterranean Paradigm 94
Alain Bresson
1. One or several? Zones and unity in the ancient
Mediterranean. 95
2. Forms of connectivity. 104
3. Mediterranean connectivity: inside and outside. 108
ANGLES OF VISION
5. The Eastern Mediterranean in Early Antiquity
Marc Van De Mieroop
117
1. Introduction. 117
2. The states of the eastern Mediterranean world.
3. Political evolution in the second half of the
119
second millennium bc. 123
4. Social structure. 128
5. War and diplomacy. 131
6. Cultural and mercantile interactions. 134
7. An eastern Mediterranean system. 137
6. Ritual Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean:
Case Studies in Ancient Greece and Asia Minor 141
Angelos Chaniotis
1. Mediterranean rituals. 141
2. From meanings to functions. 143
3. Rituals and cultural transfer. 146
4. The elusiveness of rituals. 149