The graven image : representation in Babylonia and Assyria

The graven image : representation in Babylonia and Assyria / Zainab Bahrani.

"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.&q...

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Main Author: Bahrani, Zainab, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Series:Archaeology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Art, Assyro-Babylonian > Historiography.
Aesthetics, Oriental > Historiography.
Art, Assyro-Babylonian.
Aesthetics, Oriental.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Aesthetics, Oriental
Art, Assyro-Babylonian
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Table of 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.

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