Susan Pollock (Binghamton State University of New York)

Ancient Mesopotamia

Herausgeber: Wright, Rita P.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Susan Pollock's detailed treatment of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia covers nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. Written for an undergraduate audience, her approach is explicitly anthropological, drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich our understanding of the ancient Mesopotamian past.

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Produktdetails

• Case Studies in Early Societies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780521575683
• ISBN-10: 0521575680
• Artikelnr.: 21679019

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Geographic setting and environment
3. Settlement patterns
4. Making a living: tributary economics of the fifth and fourth millennia
5. A changing way of life: the oikos-based economy of the third millennium
6. The growth of bureaucracy
7. Ideology and images of power
8. Death and the ideology of community.