Ritual And Politics In Ancient Mesopotamia
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Ritual And Politics In Ancient Mesopotamia
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Author : Barbara N. Porter
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Ritual And Politics In Ancient Mesopotamia written by Barbara N. Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Death Rituals Ideology And The Development Of Early Mesopotamian Kingship
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Author : Andrew C. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005
Death Rituals Ideology And The Development Of Early Mesopotamian Kingship written by Andrew C. Cohen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
At the beginning of Mesopotamia s Early Dynastic period, the political landscape was dominated by temple administrators, but by the end of the period, rulers whose titles we translate as king assumed control. This book argues that the ritual process of mourning, burying, and venerating dead elites contributed to this change. Part one introduces the rationale for seeing rituals as a means of giving material form to ideology and, hence, structuring overall power relations. Part two presents archaeological and textual evidence for the death rituals. Part three interprets symbolic objects found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur, showing they reflect ideological doctrines promoting the office of kingship. This book will be particularly useful for scholars of Mesopotamian archaeology and history.
The Akitu Festival
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Author : Julye Bidmead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-21
The Akitu Festival written by Julye Bidmead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-21 with Religion categories.
The Politics Of Ritual Change
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Author : John Tracy Thames, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-07-27
The Politics Of Ritual Change written by John Tracy Thames, Jr. and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with History categories.
In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understanding of the Hittite Empire’s relationship to northern Syria in the 13th century BCE.
Rituals Of War
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Author : Zainab Bahrani
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2008-03-06
Rituals Of War written by Zainab Bahrani and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-06 with Art categories.
Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000–500 BC) rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. In the book, three lines of inquiry are converged into one historical domain of violence, namely, war, the body, and representation. Building on Foucault’s argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a whole technology of representation, Zainab Bahrani investigates the ancient Mesopotamian record to reveal how that culture relied on the portrayal of violence and control as part of the mechanics of warfare. Moreover she takes up the more recent arguments of Giorgio Agamben on sovereign power and biopolitic to focus on the relationship of power, the body and violence in Assyro-Babylonian texts and monuments of war. Bahrani brings together and analyzes facets of war and sovereign power that fall under the categories of representation and display, the aesthetic, the ritualistic, and the supernatural. Besides the invention of the public monument of war, and the rituals of iconoclasm, destruction, and relocation of monuments in war, she investigates formulations of power through the body, narrative displays in battle, the reading of omens before the battle, and historical divination through the body and body parts. The author describes these as the magical technologies of war, the realm of the irrational that enables the ideologies of just war in the distant past as today.
Experiencing Power Generating Authority
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Author : Jane A. Hill
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-12-11
Experiencing Power Generating Authority written by Jane A. Hill and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-11 with History categories.
Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Corpus Of Mesopotamian Anti Witchcraft Rituals
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Author : Tzvi Abusch
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Corpus Of Mesopotamian Anti Witchcraft Rituals written by Tzvi Abusch and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centers upon witchcraft. Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and incantations attribute ill-health and misfortune to the magic machinations of witches and prescribe ceremonies, devices, and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction of this body of texts; it provides critical editions of the relevant rituals and prescriptions based on the study of the cuneiform tablets and fragments recovered from the libraries of ancient Mesopotamia.
How To Do Things With Tears
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Author : Paul Delnero
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-08-10
How To Do Things With Tears written by Paul Delnero and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with Religion categories.
In contrast to other traditions, cultic laments in Mesopotamia were not performed in response to a tragic event, such as a death or a disaster, but instead as a preemptive ritual to avert possible catastrophes. Mesopotamian laments provide a unique insight into the relationship between humankind and the gods, and their study sheds light on the nature of collective rituals within a crosscultural context. Cultic laments were performed in Mesopotamia for nearly 3000 years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this important ritual practice in the early 2nd millennium BCE, the period during which Sumerian laments were first put in writing. It also includes a new translation and critical edition of Uruamairabi (‘That city, which has been plundered’), one of the most widely performed compositions of its genre.
Political And Religious Power And Philosophy In Ancient Mesopotamia
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Author : Kemal Yildirim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Political And Religious Power And Philosophy In Ancient Mesopotamia written by Kemal Yildirim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Assyro-Babylonian religion categories.
The Ak Tu Festival
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Author : Julye Bidmead
language : en
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
Release Date : 2004
The Ak Tu Festival written by Julye Bidmead and has been published by Gorgias PressLlc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ancient Babylonian akitu or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akitu was more than just a religious ceremony - it acted as a political device employed by the monarchy and/or the central priesthood to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the akitu festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling class to promote state ideology. The akitu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool.