عنوان

Investigation into the Impacts of Foreign Ruling Elites in Traditional State Societies: The Case of the Kassite State in Babylonia (Iraq)

Number

TL48158

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Investigation into the Impacts of Foreign Ruling Elites in Traditional State Societies: The Case of the Kassite State in Babylonia (Iraq)

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Helen O. Malko

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Stone, Elizabeth C.; Bahrani, Zainab

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

336

Text of Note

Committee members: Hildebrand, Elisabeth; Zimansky, Paul

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-63925-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

This thesis focuses on the study of foreign ruling minorities in traditional state societies. It investigates how the Kassites, as a foreign ethnic group, were able to control and maintain political power over the Babylonian majority for four centuries. In addition, it examines Kassite-Babylonian cultural interaction both on state and domestic levels as reflected in the material cultural and historical records. This study uses two contrasting ethnohistorical models of foreign ruling elites of the Arabs in Spain and the Mamluks in Egypt to evaluate the mechanisms employed by the Kassites to maintain power and the nature of their interaction with the Babylonian majority. Although the Kassites adopted Babylonian culture and traditions, they still maintained their language, names, deities, and social organization. Despite their small number and foreign background, the Kassites' political and socioeconomic practices continued long after their supremacy ended, leaving a long term imprint on Babylonian culture and society.

Archaeology; Ancient history; Ethnic studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Ancient Near East;Babylonia;Ethnic minorities;Iraq;Kassites;Ruling elites

Gardiner, David C.

Stone, Elizabeth C.; Bahrani, Zainab

Subdivision

Anthropology

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Call Number

1666860963; 3686923

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[Thesis]

276903

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