The Graven Image : : Representation in Babylonia and Assyria /

The Graven Image : : Representation in Babylonia and Assyria / / Zainab Bahrani.

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Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation-both in writing and in visual images-was thought to participate in the world and to...

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Bahrani, Zainab,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2003
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Archaeology, Culture, and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 28 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Aesthetic and the Epistemic: Race, Culture, and Antiquity
  • 2. The Extraterrestrial Orient: Despotic Time and the Time of the Despots
  • 3. Ethnography and Mimesis: Representing Aesthetic Culture
  • 4. Being in the Word: Of Grammatology and Mantic
  • 5. Ṣalmu: Representation in the Real
  • 6. Decoys and Lures: Substitution and the Uncanny Double of the King
  • 7. Presence and Repetition: The Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta
  • 8. Conclusion: Image, Text, and Différance, or from Difference to Différance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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