Death rituals, ideology, and the development of early Mesopotamian kingship : toward a new understanding of Iraq's royal cemetery of Ur
| 1. Verfasser: |
Cohen, Andrew C.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; : Boston :.
Brill Academic Publishers,
2005.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxi, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ancient magic and divination ;
7. |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Ritual as potentially transformative social action
- Death rituals, their structure and stakes
- Recovering ritual acts from the textual and archaeological records
- Activities of mourning
- Activities surrounding the corpse
- Activities surrounding the ghost
- Death rituals and the royal ideology
- Conclusion: Death rituals as a locus for negotiating power relations.
