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Patients and Performative Identities - At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients (Hardcover)
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Patients and Performative Identities - At the Intersection of the Mesopotamian Technical Disciplines and Their Clients (Hardcover)
Series: Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale
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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. The contributions to this volume investigate
how Mesopotamian medical specialists interacted with their patients
and, in doing so, forged their social and professional identities.
The chapters in this book explore rituals for success at court, the
social classes who made use of such rituals, and depictions of
technical specialists on seal impressions and in later Greco-Roman
iconography. Several essays focus on Egalkura: rituals of entering
the court, meant to invoke a favorable impression from the
sovereign. These include detailed surveys and comparative studies
of the genre and its roots in the emergent astrological paradigm of
the late first millennium BC. The different media and modalities of
interaction between technical specialists and their clients are
also a central theme explored in detailed studies of the sickbed
scene in the iconography of Mesopotamian cylinder seals and the
transmission of specialized pharmaceutical knowledge from the
Mesopotamian to the Greco-Roman world. Offering an encyclopedic
survey of ritual clients attested in the cuneiform textual record,
this volume outlines both the Mesopotamian and the Greco-Roman
social contexts in which these rituals were used. It will be of
interest to students of the history of medicine, as well as to
students and scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. In addition to the
editor, the contributors include Netanel Anor, Siam Bhayro, Strahil
V. Panayotov, Maddalena Rumor, Marvin Schreiber, JoAnn Scurlock,
and Ulrike Steinert.
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