The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East

Herausgeber: Thomason, Allison; Neumann, Kiersten

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and geographical expanse of the ancient Near East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 1500g
• ISBN-13: 9781032065663
• ISBN-10: 1032065664
• Artikelnr.: 70360278

Autorenporträt

Kiersten Neumann is Curator and Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, USA, and has published numerous articles on topics pertaining to sensory experience, ritualised practice, and visual culture of the first millennium BCE, as well as museum practice, collections histories, and the reception of Assyrian and Achaemenid art. Allison Thomason is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. Her book, Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia (2005), and her subsequent publications explore portable objects, dress, and sensory experiences in the ancient Near East.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Editor's
Note; Map; Introduction, Kiersten Neumann and Allison Thomason; Part I
Practice, Production, and Taskscapes; 1 The Sense of Practice: A Case Study
of Tablet Sealing at Nippur in the Ur III Period (c. 2112-2004 BCE),
Marian H. Feldman; 2 Senses and Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late
Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages (1550-1100 BCE), Caroline Sauvage; 3 New
Sensory Experiences through Technological Innovation: The Usage and
Production of Transparent Drinking Bowls in the Neo-Assyrian Palace,
Katharina Schmidt; 4 To Touch Upon: A Tactile Exploration of the Apadana
Reliefs at Persepolis, Kiersten Neumann; 5 Soundscapes and Taskscapes in
the Ancient Near East: Interactions and Perceptions, Agnès Garcia-Ventura
and Mireia López-Bertran; Part II Dress and the Body; 6 Adornment Practices
in the Ancient Near East and the Question of Embodied Boundary Maintenance,
Josephine Verduci; 7 Dress, Sensory Assemblages, and Identity in the Early
First Millennium at Hasanlu, Iran, Megan Cifarelli; 8 Beyond the Flesh:
Sensing Identity through the Body and Skin in Mesopotamian Contexts, Sarah
J. Scott; 9 A Sense of Scale: Proprioception, Embodied Subjectivities, and
the Space of Kingship at Persepolis, Neville McFerrin; Part III Ritualised
Practice and Ceremonial Spaces; 10 Temple Ritual as Gesamtkunstwerk:
Stimulation of the Senses and Aesthetic Experience in a Religious Context,
Irene Winter; 11 Pure Stale Water: Experiencing Jewish Purifications
Rituals in Early Roman Palestine, Rick Bonnie; 12 Megaliths and Miniatures:
Scale and the Senses in the Early Neolithic, Sarah Kielt Costello; 13
Sensing Salience in the Landscapes of Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae,
Jen Thum; 14 In the Light and In the Dark: Exhibiting Power, Exploiting
Spaces in Early and Old Syrian Ebla: An Analysis of the Five Senses in an
Early Syrian Court, Frances Pinnock; 15 The Ishtar Gate: A Sensescape of
Divine Agency, Beate Pongratz-Leisten; 16 The Jerusalem Temple: A Sensory
Encounter with the Sacred, Christine Elizabeth Palmer; 17 The Ancient
Synagogue at Nabratein: The Acoustic Dynamics of Architectural Change,
Paul V. M. Flesher; Part IV Death and Burial; 18 Sensing the Ancestors: The
Importance of Senses in Constructing Ancestorship in the Ancient Near East,
Nicola Laneri; 19 Sensing the Dead in Household Burials of the Second
Millennium BCE, Melissa S. Cradic; 20 The Smells of Eternity: Aromatic Oils
and Resins in the Phoenician Mortuary Record, Helen Dixon; 21 The Sixth
Sense: Multisensory Encounters with the Dead in Roman Egypt, Lissette M.
Jiménez; Part V Science, Medicine, and Aesthetics; 22 Seeing Stars: Knowing
the Sky in Mesopotamia, M. Willis Monroe; 23 Sensory Experience in Ancient
Mesopotamian Medicine, Ulrike Steinert; 24 The Understanding of
Intellectual and Sensorial Impairment in the Hebrew Bible, Edgar
Kellenberger; 25 The Distant Eye and the Ekphrastic Image: Thinking Through
Aesthetics and Art for the Senses (Western/Non-Western), Karen Sonik; Part
VI Languages and Semantic Fields; 26 Language Technology Approach to
"Seeing" in Akkadian, Aleksi Sahala and Saana Svärd; 27 Metaphors of
Perception Verbs in Ancient Egyptian: The Proximal Senses, Elisabeth
Steinbach-Eicke; 28 Metaphors of Sensory Experience in Ancient Egyptian
Texts: Emotion, Personality, and Social Interaction, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
and Gaëlle Chantrain; 29 Smellscapes in Ancient Egypt, Dora Goldsmith; 30
Crossing Sensory Boundaries: From Vocabulary to Physical Experience,
Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel; 31 Open Your Ears and Listen! The Role of the
Senses Among the Hittites, Richard H. Beal; 32 Hearing and Seeing in
Hurrian, Dennis R. M. Campbell; Index