Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society / / Anne Porter [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Porter Anne <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 939/.4
• Soggetto topico: Pastoral systems - Middle East - History - To 1500; Migration, Internal - Middle East - History - To 1500; Sedentary behavior - Middle East - History - To 1500; Social archaeology - Iraq; Social archaeology - Middle East; Archaeology - Methodology
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Antiquities; Middle East Antiquities; Iraq Civilization To 634; Middle East Civilization To 622
• Classificazione: SOC003000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-380) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The problem with pastoralists -- Wool, writing, and religion -- From temple to tomb -- Tax and tribulation, or, Who were the Amorrites? -- Conclusion : beyond "tribe" and "state."
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE.
• Altri titoli varianti: Mobile Pastoralism & the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations
• ISBN: 1-139-33397-6; 1-107-21725-3; 1-139-33978-8; 1-280-39384-X; 9786613571762; 1-139-33733-5; 1-139-34136-7; 1-139-33646-0; 1-139-33820-X; 0-511-89501-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814204403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II