This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse
approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an
innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past
humans through contributions that cover the chronological and
geographical expanse of the ancient Near East. It comprises
thirty-two chapters written by leading international contributors
that look at the ways in which humans, through their senses,
experienced their lives and the world around them in the ancient
Near East, with coverage of Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant,
Mesopotamia, Syria, and Persia, from the Neolithic through the
Roman period. It is organised into six parts related to sensory
contexts: Practice, production, and taskscape; Dress and the body;
Ritualised practice and ceremonial spaces; Death and burial;
Science, medicine, and aesthetics; and Languages and semantic
fields. In addition to exploring what makes each sensory context
unique, this organisation facilitates cross-cultural and
cross-chronological, as well as cross-sensory and multisensory
comparisons and discussions of sensory experiences in the ancient
world. In so doing, the volume also enables considerations of
senses beyond the five-sense model of Western philosophy (sight,
hearing, touch, taste, and smell), including proprioception and
interoception, and the phenomena of synaesthesia and kinaesthesia.
The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East
provides scholars and students within the field of ancient Near
Eastern studies new perspectives on and conceptions of familiar
spaces, places, and practices, as well as material culture and
texts. It also allows scholars and students from adjacent fields
such as Classics and Biblical Studies to engage with this material,
and is a must-read for any scholar or student interested in or
already engaged with the field of sensory studies in any period.
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