Anne Porter

Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations

Weaving Together Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the roles of mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world in ancient Mesopotamia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666078
• ISBN-10: 1107666074
• Artikelnr.: 40190273

Autorenporträt

Anne Porter is Assistant Professor in the School of Religion and Departments of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She served as co-director of excavations at the Tell Banat Settlement Complex, Syria. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at both the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The problem with pastoralists
2. Wool, writing, and religion
3. From temple to tomb
4. Tax and tribulation, or, who were the Amorrites?
Conclusion.