Title:
Animals and their relation to gods, humans and things in the ancient world / Raija Mattila, Sanae Ito, Sebastian Fink, editors.
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien
Studies in universal and cultural history
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien
Studies in universal and cultural history
Author:
Mattila, Raija, editor.
Ito, Sanae, editor.
Fink, Sebastian, editor.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human-animal studies : bridging the lacuna between academia and society / Gabriela Kompatscher -- Reflections on the pivotal role of animals in early Mesopotamia / Gebhard J. Selz -- Taxonomy and medicine : analysing transfers between disciplines, a step towards understanding Mesopotamian sciences / V�er�ene Chalendar -- Categorization and hierarchy : animals and their relations to gods, humans and things in the Hittite world / Ilan Peled -- From ape to zebra : on wild animals and taxonomy in ancient Israel / Scott B. Noegel -- Holy cow! : on cattle metaphors in Sumerian literary texts / Judith Pfitzner -- Animals in the Sumerian disputation poems / Catherine Mittermayer -- Gilgame�s and Enkidu : the two-thirds-god and the two-thirds-animal? / Simonetta Ponchia -- Anthropomorphism and the Aesopic animal fables / Tua Korhonen -- Animal friezes in "orientalizing" Greek art / Ann C. Gunter -- On men, animals, and supernatural beings in ancient Maya iconography / Harri Kettunen -- Creation of animals in Sumerian mythology / Peeter Espak -- Animals and demons : faunal appearances, metaphors, and similes in Lama�stu incantations / Joonas Hirvonen -- The animal fable of the Ikhw�an al-�Saf�a' in context : the ontological and moral status of animals in early Islamic thought / Janne Mattila -- Aztec dogs : myths and ritual practice / Izabela Wilkosz -- A zooarchaeological study of the formation process of the Ainu Bear-sending ceremony / Takao Sato -- Man and animals in the administrative texts of the end of the 3rd millennium BC / M. Such-Guti�errez -- For the gods or for money? : sheep husbandry at the temples in first millennium Babylonia / Michaela Weszeli.
While Human-Animal Studies is a rapidly growing field in modern history, studies on this topic that focus on the Ancient World are few. The present volume aims at closing this gap. It investigates the relation between humans, animals, gods, and things with a special focus on the structure of these categories. An improved understanding of the ancient categories themselves is a precondition for any investigation into the relation between them. The focus of the volume lies on the Ancient Near East, but it also provides studies on Ancient Greece, Asia Minor, Mesoamerica, the Far East, and Arabia.
Publisher:
Springer VS, imprint of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH part of Springer Nature,
Publication Place:
Wiesbaden, Germany :
ISBN:
3658243872
9783658243876
Subject:
Archaeology
History, Ancient.
Antiquities.
Animals and civilization.
Human-animal relationships.
Antiquities.
History , Ancient
Human-animal relationships.
Altertum
Gotter
Mensch
Tiere
Series:
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien
Studies in universal and cultural history
Universal- und kulturhistorische studien
Studies in universal and cultural history
Contents:
Human-animal studies : bridging the lacuna between academia and society / Gabriela Kompatscher -- Reflections on the pivotal role of animals in early Mesopotamia / Gebhard J. Selz -- Taxonomy and medicine : analysing transfers between disciplines, a step towards understanding Mesopotamian sciences / V�er�ene Chalendar -- Categorization and hierarchy : animals and their relations to gods, humans and things in the Hittite world / Ilan Peled -- From ape to zebra : on wild animals and taxonomy in ancient Israel / Scott B. Noegel -- Holy cow! : on cattle metaphors in Sumerian literary texts / Judith Pfitzner -- Animals in the Sumerian disputation poems / Catherine Mittermayer -- Gilgame�s and Enkidu : the two-thirds-god and the two-thirds-animal? / Simonetta Ponchia -- Anthropomorphism and the Aesopic animal fables / Tua Korhonen -- Animal friezes in "orientalizing" Greek art / Ann C. Gunter -- On men, animals, and supernatural beings in ancient Maya iconography / Harri Kettunen -- Creation of animals in Sumerian mythology / Peeter Espak -- Animals and demons : faunal appearances, metaphors, and similes in Lama�stu incantations / Joonas Hirvonen -- The animal fable of the Ikhw�an al-�Saf�a' in context : the ontological and moral status of animals in early Islamic thought / Janne Mattila -- Aztec dogs : myths and ritual practice / Izabela Wilkosz -- A zooarchaeological study of the formation process of the Ainu Bear-sending ceremony / Takao Sato -- Man and animals in the administrative texts of the end of the 3rd millennium BC / M. Such-Guti�errez -- For the gods or for money? : sheep husbandry at the temples in first millennium Babylonia / Michaela Weszeli.
Physical Description:
XII, 487 pages : illustrations ;
Publication Date:
[2019]
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