Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East - Couverture souple

Harmanşah, Ömür

 
9781107533745: Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1107533740 ISBN 13 : 9781107533745
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of ​Art History at ​the University​ of Illinois, Chicago​. ​His research focuses on the history of architecture and cities in the ancient Near East, as well as questions of place, landscape and memory.​ He has been directing​ the Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Project, a regional survey in west-​​central Turkey ​since 2010​. In the past he has worked on archaeological projects in Turkey and Greece, including Gordion, Ayanis, Kerkenes Dağ and Isthmia. His articles have been published in journals such as the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeological Dialogues and the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107533740
ISBN 13 
9781107533745
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
372
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9781107027947: Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East

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ISBN 10 :  1107027942 ISBN 13 :  9781107027947
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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