Flesh and Bones: The Individual and His Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin: 2 (Semitica Et Classica: Supplementa) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503590381 ISBN 13: 9782503590387

Publisher: Brepols Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

This volume gathers the papers presented during an interdisciplinary research seminar entitled The individual and his body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin. This seminar was at the crossroads of history of religions and social anthropology, creating a dialogue between philologists, archaeologists, historians of religions and anthropologists. Its main aim consisted in studying self-perceptions of the body in the Ancient Near East, with incursions in other parts of the Mediterranean Basin in a comparatist perspective. In this volume, various themes are examined, such as: 1) the relationship between the body and language; 2) the body, perceptions and society, including a study of the senses as they are described in the texts; 3) the body as a symbol of social belonging; 4) the body as a medium for religious experience.

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About the Author

Alice Mouton is a CNRS scholar (Directeur de Recherche) in Paris (UMR 8167 "Orient & Méditerranée"). She teaches Hittite language at the Catholic University of Paris and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Her research is focused on Hittite religious practices and beliefs and on religious anthropology applied to Hittite Anatolia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503590381
• ISBN 13: 9782503590387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Mouton Alice