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Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Perspectives on Collecting

Autor Allison Karmel Thomason
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2005
Utilizing a variety of ancient sources, including cuneiform texts, images and archaeological finds, Luxury and Legitimation explores how the collecting of luxury objects contributed to the formation of royal identity in one of the world's oldest civilizations, ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Allison Thomason makes a significant and timely contribution to the subjects of collecting and material culture studies by bringing a new understanding to the political, cultural and social institutions of an important pre-Classical, non-Western civilization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780754602385
ISBN-10: 0754602389
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Perspectives on Collecting

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents: Preface; Theoretical underpinnings: towards a definition of collecting; Introduction to Mesopotamian society; Mesopotamian collecting in the third millennium b.c.e.; Mesopotamian collecting in the second millennium b.c.e.; Mesopotamian collecting in the first millennium b.c.e.; Conclusion; Appendix: Chronology of Mesopotania; Bibliography; Index.

Notă biografică

Allison Karmel Thomason is Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA.

Recenzii

’...this interdisciplinary study is to be welcomed for its methodological insights and fresh perspective.’ Antiquity

Descriere

Utilizing a variety of ancient sources, including cuneiform texts, images and archaeological finds, Luxury and Legitimation explores how the collecting of luxury objects contributed to the formation of royal identity in one of the world's oldest civilizations, ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Allison Thomason makes a significant and timely contribution to the subjects of collecting and material culture studies by bringing a new understanding to the political, cultural and social institutions of an important pre-Classical, non-Western civilization.