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Movement and mobility represent intertwined concepts that have persisted throughout human history. The act of moving from one place to another is, however, intricately tied to the challenges that hinder it. These obstacles can either be natural in origin or the product of human design aimed at constraining the movement of individuals or groups. Furthermore, movement and mobility can also manifest themselves within society, encompassing the fluid shifts of people within the social hierarchy and the transitions between various social groups. The transfer of words, technologies, and religious ideologies often accompanies these human movements. The region of ancient Western Asia and northeast Africa serves as a rich repository of evidence for these forms of movement and mobility, extensively documented through written sources and material culture. The essays collected in this volume variously examine the political dimensions of movement and mobility; how ideas, concepts, and languages move across boundaries; and the material evidence for cultural interactions.

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Author:   Jana Mynárová ,  Ludovica Bertolini ,  Federico Zangani
Publisher:   Lockwood Press
Imprint:   Lockwood Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 26.30cm
Weight:   1.282kg
ISBN:  

9781957454108

ISBN 10:   1957454105
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   24 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface               About the Contributors Abbreviations   Part 1. Politics Aaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents Abroad Yoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria               Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant          Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of Ur Jacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age Alalakh Ellen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World   Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age Levant Seth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCE Part 2. Ideas, Concepts, and Languages Ludovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through Life Paul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna         Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti? Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder               Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge           Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age             Part 3. Materiality and Administration Jacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant         Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA)               Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma        Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis              Index of Names

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Jana Mynářováis professor of history and cultures of Asia and Africa and director of the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague specialising in Assyriology and Egyptology. Ludovica Bertolini is assistant professor in the the Institute of Ancient Newar Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Federico Zangani is a Renfrew Fellow in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, specialising in Egyptology.

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