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Brill Academic Publishers
Language
English

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Subjects
Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies, History, Ideology, Kingship, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ur (extinct city), Begraafplaatsen, Archeologische vondsten, Dodenbezorging
Places
Iraq, Ur (Extinct city)
Times
To 1500

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Death rituals, ideology, and the development of early Mesopotamian kingship: toward a new understanding of Iraq's royal cemetery of Ur
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Table of Contents

Chronology
Introduction
Ritual as potentially transformative social action
Death rituals, their structure and stakes
Recovering ritual acts from the textual and archaeological records
Activities of mourning
Activities surrounding the corpse
Activities surrounding the ghost
Death rituals and the royal ideology
Conclusion: Death rituals as a locus for negotiating power relations.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Studies in ancient magic and divination ;, v. 7

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Dewey Decimal Class
393/.0935
Library of Congress
DS69.6 .C64 2005, DS69.6.C64 2005

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p. cm.

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OL3409232M
ISBN 10
9004146350
LCCN
2005025167
OCLC/WorldCat
61260809
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2050561

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