Nomads, tribes, and the state in the ancient Near East :
[Book]
cross-disciplinary perspectives /
edited by Jeffrey Szuchman ; with contributions by Jeffrey Szuchman ... [et al.]
Chicago :
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2009
xv, 288 p. :
ill., maps ;
26 cm
Oriental Institute seminars ;
no. 5
Papers from a seminar held March 7-8, 2008, Oriental Institute
1. Integrating approaches to nomads, tribes, and the state in the ancient Near East / Jeffrey Szuchman -- 2. The archaeology of pastoral nomads between the Nile and the Red Sea / Hans Barnard -- 3. Egypt and the vanishing Libyan : institutional responses to a nomadic people / Robert Ritner -- 4. History does not repeat itself : cyclicity and particularism in nomad-sedentary relations inthe Negev in the long term / Steven A. Rosen -- 5. Pitching camp : ethnoarchaeological investigations of inhabited tent camps in the Wadi Hisma, Jordan / Benjamin Adam Saidel -- 6. Tribal societies in the nineteenth century : a model / Eveline van der Steen -- 7. Specific characteristics of chalcolithic and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Near East / Anatoly M. Khazanov -- 8. Prehistoric mobile pastoralists in south-central and southwestern Iran / Abbas Alizadeh -- 9. Pastoral nomads and Iron Age metal production in ancient Edom / Thomas E. Levy -- 10. Who lived in the third-millennium "round cities" of northern Syria? / Bertille Lyonnet -- 11. Beyond dimorphism : ideologies and materialities of kinship aas time-space distanciation / Anne Porter -- 12. Kinship of city and tribe conjoined : Zimri-Lim at Mari / Daniel E. Fleming -- 13. From pastoral peasantry to tribal urbanites : Arab tribes and the foundation of the Islamic state in Syria / Donald Whitcomb -- 14. Pastoral mobility as an adaptation / Frank Hole