Allison Karmel Thomason

Luxury and Legitimation (eBook, ePUB)

Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Utilizing a variety of ancient sources, including cuneiform texts, images and archaeological finds, Luxury and Legitimation explores how the collecting of luxury objects contributed to the formation of royal identity in one of the world's oldest civilizations, ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Allison Thomason makes a significant and timely contribution to the subjects of collecting and material culture studies by bringing a new understanding to the political, cultural and social institutions of an important pre-Classical, non-Western civilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351921138
• Artikelnr.: 47955187

Autorenporträt

Allison Karmel Thomason is Associate Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Theoretical underpinnings: towards a definition of collecting
Introduction to Mesopotamian society
Mesopotamian collecting in the third millennium b.c.e.
Mesopotamian collecting in the second millennium b.c.e.
Mesopotamian collecting in the first millennium b.c.e.
Conclusion
Appendix: Chronology of Mesopotania
Bibliography
Index.