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Author Bahrani, Zainab, 1962-

Title The graven image : representation in Babylonia and Assyria / Zainab Bahrani
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations
Series Archaeology, Culture, and Society
Archaeology, culture, and society.
Contents Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. THE AESTHETIC AND THE EPISTEMIC: RACE, CULTURE, AND ANTIQUITY; 2. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIENT: DESPOTIC TIME AND THE TIME OF THE DESPOTS; 3 . ETHNOGRAPHY AND MIMESIS: REPRESENTING AESTHETIC CULTURE; 4. BEING IN THE WORD: OF GRAMMATOLOGY AND MANTIC; 5. SALMU: REPRESENTATION IN THE REAL; 6. DECOYS AND LURES: SUBSTITUTION AND THE UNCANNY DOUBLE OF THE KING; 7. PRESENCE AND REPETITION: THE ALTAR OF TUKULTI-NINURTA; 8. CONCLUSION: IMAGE, TEXT, AND DIFFÉRANCE, OR FROM DIFFERENCE TO DIFFÉRANCE; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments
Summary "A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation ... Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Art, Assyro-Babylonian -- Historiography
Aesthetics, Oriental -- Historiography
Art, Assyro-Babylonian.
Aesthetics, Oriental.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Aesthetics, Oriental
Art, Assyro-Babylonian
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003047322
ISBN 9780812206777
0812206770