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Author Neumann, Kiersten

Title The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient near East
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (771 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Note -- Introduction -- What Is Sensory Studies? The New "Sensory Turn" -- How Does the Field of Sensory Studies Intersect With the Study of the Ancient Near East? -- How Is this a New Compilation? -- The Sections and Chapters in this Volume -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part I Practice, Production, and Taskscapes -- 1 The Sense of Practice: A Case Study of Tablet Sealing at Nippur in the Ur III Period (C. 2112-2004 BCE) -- Introduction
Learning and Practice -- Sealing Practices and the Ur III Period -- The Case of Nippur -- The Sense of Sealing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Senses and Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1550-1100 BCE) -- Introduction -- The Sensory Experience of Textile Production -- Spinning and Weaving -- Dyes and Dyeing -- Sensory Experience of Clothing and Textiles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 New Sensory Experiences Through Technological Innovation: The Use and Production of Transparent Drinking Bowls in the ... -- Introduction
Methodological Background -- Glass and Its Transparency -- Archaeological Contexts of Transparent Hemispherical Glass Bowls -- Use -- Production -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 To Touch Upon: A Tactile Exploration of the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis -- Introduction -- The Apadana of Persepolis -- Touch of the Craftsmen -- Touch Carved in Stone -- Curating and Producing Interactions With Art -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Soundscapes and Taskscapes in the Ancient Near East: Interactions and Perceptions -- Introduction -- Work and Taskscapes -- Music and Soundscapes
Approaching and Delimiting Work Songs -- Sensing the Past: an Overview -- Ancient Near Eastern Work Songs as Indicators of Multisensoriality -- The Song of the Millstone -- The Song of the Plowing Oxen -- Two Songs to Soothe a Child's Crying -- Conclusion: Singing at Work in the Ancient Near East -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Dress and the Body -- 6 Adornment Practices in the Ancient Near East and the Question of Embodied Boundary Maintenance -- Introduction -- The Data -- The Grave Goods -- The Iconography -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography
7 Dress, Sensory Assemblages, and Identity in the Early First Millennium BCE at Hasanlu, Iran -- Introduction -- Hasanlu in Period IVb (1050-800 BCE) -- Assemblages and Phenomena -- Sensorial Assemblages and Intersubjectivity -- Senses and Power Dynamics -- Accumulated Magnificence -- Pins -- Finger- and Toe-Rings -- Head, Neck, and Body Beads -- Armour Scale Pectorals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Beyond the Flesh: Sensing Identity Through the Body and Skin in Mesopotamian Glyptic Contexts -- Introduction -- Things, Cognition, and the Haptic Sense
Notes The Mesopotamian Body: a Sense of the Body, the Divine, and Stone
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Subject Senses and sensation -- Middle East -- History
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Ancient
Senses and sensation
Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Thomason, Allison
ISBN 9781000436426
100043642X