Patients and Performative Identities : : At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients /

Patients and Performative Identities : : At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients / / ed. by J. Cale Johnson.

The missing piece in so many histories of Mesopotamian technical disciplines is the client, who often goes unnoticed by present-day scholars seeking to reconstruct ancient disciplines in the Near East over millennia. The contributions to this volume investigate how Mesopotamian medical specialists i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Anor, Netanel,
Bhayro, Siam,
Johnson, J. Cale,
Panayotov, Strahil V.,
Rumor, Maddalena,
Schreiber, Marvin,
Scurlock, JoAnn,
Steinert, Ulrike,
HerausgeberIn:
Johnson, J. Cale,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 34 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Between Social History and the Life of the Mind: Professionals and Their Clients in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Chapter 2 Just in Case: Rituals for Entering the Palace or Perversion of Justice
  • Chapter 3 Egalkura and Late Astrology
  • Chapter 4 Looking for Clients in the Mesopotamian Ritual Texts
  • Chapter 5 The Seer and His Client in the Ritual of Extispicy
  • Chapter 6 Healing in Images and Texts: The Sickbed Scene
  • Chapter 7 Performative Elements in the Aramaic Magic Bowls
  • Chapter 8 Akkadian Sikillu and Greek Σκíλλα in Their Medical and Magico-ritual Contexts

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