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The Graven Image : Representation in Babylonia and Assyria.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeology, Culture, and Society SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206777
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Graven ImageDDC classification:
  • 302.2/0935
LOC classification:
  • BH102 -- .B34 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. THE AESTHETIC AND THE EPISTEMIC: RACE, CULTURE, AND ANTIQUITY -- 2. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIENT: DESPOTIC TIME AND THE TIME OF THE DESPOTS -- 3 . ETHNOGRAPHY AND MIMESIS: REPRESENTING AESTHETIC CULTURE -- 4. BEING IN THE WORD: OF GRAMMATOLOGY AND MANTIC -- 5. SALMU: REPRESENTATION IN THE REAL -- 6. DECOYS AND LURES: SUBSTITUTION AND THE UNCANNY DOUBLE OF THE KING -- 7. PRESENCE AND REPETITION: THE ALTAR OF TUKULTI-NINURTA -- 8. CONCLUSION: IMAGE, TEXT, AND DIFFÉRANCE, OR FROM DIFFERENCE TO DIFFÉRANCE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. THE AESTHETIC AND THE EPISTEMIC: RACE, CULTURE, AND ANTIQUITY -- 2. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIENT: DESPOTIC TIME AND THE TIME OF THE DESPOTS -- 3 . ETHNOGRAPHY AND MIMESIS: REPRESENTING AESTHETIC CULTURE -- 4. BEING IN THE WORD: OF GRAMMATOLOGY AND MANTIC -- 5. SALMU: REPRESENTATION IN THE REAL -- 6. DECOYS AND LURES: SUBSTITUTION AND THE UNCANNY DOUBLE OF THE KING -- 7. PRESENCE AND REPETITION: THE ALTAR OF TUKULTI-NINURTA -- 8. CONCLUSION: IMAGE, TEXT, AND DIFFÉRANCE, OR FROM DIFFERENCE TO DIFFÉRANCE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

"A welcome addition to the study of the ancient Near East. It breaks away from Eurocentric approaches and tries to do justice to Mesopotamian thought, thus shedding new light on the relationship between text and representation. . . . Bahrani's book will become the center of a lively debate."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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