Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations - Weaving Together Society

Informationen zum Autor Anne Porter is Assistant Professor in the School of Religion and Departments of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She served as co-director of excavations at the Tell Banat Settlement Complex, Syria. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at both the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. Klappentext This book explores the roles of mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world in ancient Mesopotamia. "Porter effectively uses the first person to clearly describe and discuss the problems involved and to present the available data as well as her own hypotheses and conclusions." --E.H. Cline, Choice Zusammenfassung In this book! Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The problem with pastoralists; 2. Wool, writing, and religion; 3. From temple to tomb; 4. Tax and tribulation, or, who were the Amorrites?; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Porter, Anne (University of Southern California) Porter, Porter Anne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521764438
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76443-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Mesopotamia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Archaeology, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, BCE period – Protohistory