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Patients and Performative Identities : At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients.

Johnson, J. Cale.
2020
DS69.6 .P37 2020
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Title
Patients and Performative Identities : At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients.
Author
Johnson, J. Cale.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781646020966
9781575067438
Published
University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020.
Copyright
©2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (203 pages).
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DS69.6 .P37 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.70935
Summary
The missing piece in so many histories of Mesopotamian technical disciplines is the client, who often goes unnoticed by present-day scholars seeking to reconstruct ancient disciplines in the Near East over millennia.
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Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Series
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COVER Front
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Between Social History and the Life of the Mind: Professionals and Their Clients in Ancient Mesopotamia
Chapter 2: Just in Case: Rituals for Entering the Palace or Perversion of Justice
Chapter 3: Egalkura and Late Astrology
Chapter 4: Looking for Clients in the Mesopotamian Ritual Texts
Chapter 5: The Seer and His Client in the Ritual of Extispicy
Chapter 6: Healing in Images and Texts: The Sickbed Scene
Chapter 7: Performative Elements in the Aramaic Magic Bowls
Chapter 8: Akkadian Sikillu and Greek Σκτ̔̈ΔΓ·λλα in Their Medical and Magico-ritual Contexts.

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