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Animals and their relation to gods, humans and things in the ancient world /

3658243880

9783658243883

3658243872

9783658243876

Animals and their relation to gods, humans and things in the ancient world /

[Book]

Raija Mattila, [and 2 others], editors.

Wiesbaden, Germany :

Springer VS,

[2019]

1 online resource

Universal- und Kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

Includes index.

Intro; Contents; The authors; 1 Introduction; 1 Keynotes; 2 Human-Animal Studies. Bridging the Lacuna between Academia and Society; 1 The (Western) Origins; 2 What are Human-Animal Studies about?; 3 Human-Animal Studies and their Potential as Connectors between Academia and Society; 3.1 HAS at the University of Innsbruck; 3.2 Outcomes of HAS; 3.3 Creating Bridges; 4 Appeal; Bibliography; 3 Reflections on the Pivotal Role of Animals in Early Mesopotamia; 1 Classification processes and animals; 1.1 Gender classification in Sumerian; 1.2 What are Animals?; 1.3 Whales and Wugs

1.4 Writing Birds and Locusts1.5 Classification in the Early Writings Systems; 1.6 The Superordinate Taxon "Animal"; 1.7 Different Ways to Classify; 2 Classification, Abstraction, Symbolic Thought, Metaphors and Conceptual Frames; 2.1 Objectification and Divinization (Early Dynastic period) as a Case Study; 2.2 Semantic Frames and the Multi-Layered Writing System; 3 Classification in the Lexical List: Domestic and 'Wild' Animals; 4 Conceptual Frames; Some Examples; 4.1 The Case of the Dog: People as Dogs; 4.2 The Cases of the Horse and the Camel; 4.3 The Case of a Chimaera /Monster

3 Puzzling Categories in Official Law4 Setting and Breaking the Boundaries: Magical Rituals; 5 The Higher Spheres: Myths and Literary Texts; 6 Religion and State-Cult; 7 Telling the Future: Omens and Dream Reports; 8 In Conclusion: Categorizations in Hittite Worldview, Humans, Gods and Animals; Bibliography; 6 From Ape to Zebra. On Wild Animals and Taxonomy in Ancient Israel; 1 Taxonomy One: All Animals Below Humans; 2 Taxonomy Two: Wild Animals between Humans and God; 2.1 Wild Animals as Divine Agents; 2.2 Wild Animals as Numinous Creatures Beyond Control without Divine Help

3.1 Why Focus on Medical Prescriptions?3.2 General Remarks about Materia Medica in Medical Prescriptions; 4 Medical Prescriptions Confronted with Lexical Data: A Case Study of Lion, Wolf, Dog and Fox; 4.1 Some Considerations about the UR-Group; 4.2 Lion, wolf, dog and fox in ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu XIV; 4.3 Lion, Wolf, Dog and Fox in Medical Prescriptions; 5 Conclusions; 6 Appendix -- Texts; Bibliography; 5 Categorization and Hierarchy. Animals and their Relations to Gods, Humans and Things in the Hittite World*; 1 Introduction; 2 Animals, Humans, Boundaries and Categorizations

5 The Ideological Salience of Animals5.1 Reconciling the Domestic and the Wild Animal; 5.2 Deity as Animals; 5.3 Rulers (Humans) as Animals; 5.4 Political Theology and Demonizing Animals; 5.5 Animal Offerings for the Gods; 5.6 The Animal in Later Secret Lore; 6 Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; 2 Taxonomies; 4 Taxonomy and Medicine. Analysing Transfers between Disciplines, a Step towards Understanding Mesopotamian Sciences; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting; 2.1 Latest Developments; 2.2 What about "Scientific Tablets"?; 3 Materia Medica in Medical Prescriptions

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While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia. Contents Human-Animal-Studies - Bridging the Lacuna between Academia and Society.- Reflections on the Pivotal Role of Animals in Early Mesopotamia.- Holy Cow! On Cattle Metaphores in Sumerian Literary Texts.- On Men, Animals, and Supernatural Beings in Ancient Maya Iconography. - Animal Friezes in "Orientalizing" Greek Art. Target Groups Lecturers, students and specialists in the humanities and social sciences The Editors Dr. Raija Mattila is Docent of Assyriology, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Director of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Sanae Ito is a historian and Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Sebastian Fink is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions."

Animals and Their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World.

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