The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia : : ›Nīš Libbi‹ Therapies / / Gioele Zisa.
After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies....
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Zisa, Gioele, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Loss of Male Sexual Desire in Ancient Mesopotamia : ›Nīš Libbi‹ Therapies / Gioele Zisa. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021] ©2022 1 online resource (XXIV, 588 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Medical Traditions : The Written Memory of World Medicine , 2567-6938 ; 5 Diss. LMU München 2018. Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bibliographical abbreviations -- Editorial abbreviations and sigla -- Part I: Interpretative analysis of the corpus -- Chapter I Nīš libbi therapies and theoretical and methodological introduction -- Chapter II Nīš libbi incantations -- Chapter III Rituals and prescriptions -- Conclusions. Therapeutic efficacy and analogical thinking -- Part II: Edition -- Nīš libbi catalogue LKA 94 -- I Texts from Aššur (with duplicates from other sites) -- II Texts from Nineveh (with duplicates from other sites) -- III Text from Sultantepe (with duplicates from other sites) -- IV Texts from Uruk (with duplicates from other sites) -- V Texts from Boghazköy -- VI Ritual fragments from Nineveh and Aššur -- VII Ritual fragments from Sippar and Uruk -- VIII Ritual fragments from Boghazköy -- List of mineral and botanical ingredients -- Index of ingredients -- Concordances -- Bibliography -- Index of Akkadian terms and expressions discussed -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star After more than fifty years since the last publication, the cuneiform texts relating to the treatment of the loss of male sexual desire and vigor in Mesopotamia are collected in this volume. The aim of the book is to present Mesopotamian medical tradition regarding the so-called nīš libbi therapies.šà-zi-ga in Sumerian, nīš libbi in Akkadian, lit. "raising of the 'heart'", is the expression used to indicate a group of texts intended to recover the male sexual desire. This medical tradition is preserved from the Middle Babylonian period to the Achaemenid one. This broad range testifies to the importance of the transmission of this material throughout Mesopotamian history.The book provides the edition of this textual corpus and analyzes it in the light of new knowledge on ancient Near Eastern medicine. Moreover, this volume aims to show how theories and methodologies of Cultural Anthropology, Ethnopsychiatry and Gender Studies are useful for understanding the Mesopotamian medical system. This edition is an important tool for understanding Mesopotamian medical knowledge for Assyriologist, however since the texts have been translated and discussed using the anthropological and gender perspectives they are accessible also to scholars of other research fields, such as History of Medicine, Sexuality and Gender. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) Antike Medizin. Mesopotamien. Sexualität. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh Babylonian medicine. Mesopotamian sexual desire. Mesopotamian sexuality. cuneiform medicine. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 9783110766820 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2021 English 9783110754056 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2021 9783110753813 ZDB-23-DGD EPUB 9783110757330 print 9783110757040 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110757262 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110757262 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110757262/original |
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