Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East

Informationen zum Autor Lauren Ristvet is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and Robert H. Dyson, Jr, Assistant Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Penn Museum. She has directed archaeological surveys and excavations at major Bronze Age and classical period sites in Syria (Tell Leilan), Azerbaijan (Oglanqala) and Iraq (Satu Qala). She is the author of In the Beginning: World History from Human Evolution to the First States (2007), and her articles have been published in journals including Antiquity, the American Journal of Archaeology, BASOR (the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research) and World Archaeology. Klappentext Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. Zusammenfassung Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual! performance! and politics in the ancient Near East. She uses a wide range of archaeological! iconographic! and cuneiform sources to show how ritual performance was not set apart from the practice of politics; it was politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Performing politics; 2. Movement; 3. Memory; 4. Tradition; 5. Community.

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• Authors: Lauren Ristvet, Lauren (University of Pennsylvania) Ristvet, Ristvet Lauren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107065215
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06521-5
• No. of pages: 331
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Archaeology, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE