عنوان

Ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East /

(Number (ISBN

1107065216

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9781107065215

Erroneous ISBN

1107653428

Erroneous ISBN

9781107653429

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Title Proper

Ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Lauren Ristvet, University of Pennsylvania.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 317 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-306) and index.

Text of Note

I. Performing politics -- Politics and ritual in the past and present -- The 2500 year celebration at Persepolis -- French Revolution -- Royal processions in Majapahit -- The Fiesta de Santa Fe -- Maya ancestors and patron deities -- Ritual, religion, and practice -- Performative traces -- Movement, history, and tradition -- II. Movement -- An event that models : the Ebla coronation ritual -- Movement and perception -- Kingdoms, cities, artisans, and officials -- Borders, city walls, and open spaces -- Limiting access -- Inclusive spaces -- Beyond the city -- Collective representations: pilgrimages and political power -- Pilgrimages and sacred journeys at Ebla -- The archaeology of pilgrimage at Ebla -- The Syrian ritual -- Materialized symbols : cult centers in the countryside -- Gre Virike -- Hazna -- Jebelet al-Beda -- Tell Banat -- Actors, audience, and mise-en-scene : pilgrimage centers? -- Constructing kingdoms -- Death, ancestors, and power -- Conclusion: Urban spaces, pilgrimage networks and the rise of political complexity -- III. Memory -- An event that presents : the Feast of Istar and the Kispum ritual -- Memory, mourning, and legitimacy -- Political instability -- Tribal politics -- The dynamics of resettlement -- History and the politics of emplacement -- Middle Bronze Age economics -- Collective representations : the past in the past -- Literature, history, and the ancestors -- Divine will and divinationtoc-entry -- Materialized symbols : death, ritual and the authority of the past in daily life -- The archaeology of death and ritual -- Ancestors, monuments and politics -- The past, heirlooms and legitimacy -- Actors, audience, and mise-en-scene : ancestors, tribes and politics -- Kings and the politics of commemoration -- Tribes, towns, councils, and ancestors -- Conclusion: Mourning and memory -- IV. Tradition -- An event that re-presents : the Akitu Festival -- Invented traditions -- Hellenistic Babylonia -- The city and countryside -- Settlement, irrigation, and trade -- Seleucid urbanism -- Domestic practices -- Consuming empire? : pottery and foodways -- Figurines and domestic life -- Coins, debt, and payment -- Collective representations : scholarly texts, history, and the transmission of knowledge -- Preserving scholarly knowledge -- Astrology, astronomy, and history -- Materialized symbols : temples and tradition -- Rebuilding the temple -- The temple, the assembly, and civil authority -- Archives, administration, and community -- Actors, audience, and mise-en-scene : kings, priests, and festivals -- Conclusion: Performing tradition -- Community -- Performance and public events in the ancient Near East -- Performing community -- States and instability -- Political strategies -- Continuity.

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Text of Note

"In this book, Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. She draws on a wide range of archaeological, iconographic, and cuneiform sources to show how ritual performance was not set apart from the real practice of politics; it was politics. Rituals provided an opportunity for elites and ordinary people to negotiate political authority. Descriptions of rituals from three periods explore the networks of signification that informed different societies."--Provided by publisher.

Festivals-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Political culture-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Political customs and rites-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Rites and ceremonies-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Ritual-- Social aspects-- Middle East-- History-- To 1500.

Social archaeology-- Middle East.

Middle East, Antiquities.

Middle East, History, To 622.

Middle East, Politics and government.

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Ristvet, Lauren

Date of Transaction

20160323121905.0

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