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Author:   Jeffrey Szuchman
Publisher:   Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Imprint:   Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781885923615

ISBN 10:   1885923619
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Introduction; Integrating Approaches to Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East (Jeffrey Szuchman, University of Chicago). SECTION ONE: INTEGRATING METHODS: HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, AND ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA. The Archaeology of Pastoral Nomads between the Nile and the Red Sea (Hans Barnard, University of California, Los Angeles); Egypt and the Vanishing Libyan: Institutional Responses to a Nomadic People (Robert Ritner, University of Chicago); History Does Not Repeat Itself: Cyclicity and Particularism in Nomad-Sedentary Relations in the Negev in the Long Term (Steven A. Rosen, Ben-Gurion University); Pitching Camp: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of Inhabited Tent Camps in the Wadi Hisma, Jordan (Benjamin Adam Saidel, East Carolina University). SECTION TWO: INTEGRATING PARADIGMS OF TRIBE-STATE INTERACTION. Specific Characteristics of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Near East (Anatoly M. Khazanov, University of Wisconsin-Madison); Prehistoric Mobile Pastoralists in South-central and Southwestern Iran (Abbas Alizadeh, University of Chicago); Pastoral Nomads and Iron Age Metal Production in Ancient Edom (Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego); Who Lived in the Third-millennium Round Cities of Northern Syria? (Bertille Lyonnet, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris); Beyond Dimorphism: Ideologies and Materialities of Kinship as Time-Space Distanciation (Anne Porter, University of Southern California); Kingship of City and Tribe Conjoined: Zimri-Lim at Mari (Daniel E. Fleming, New York University); From Pastoral Peasantry to Tribal Urbanites: Arab Tribes and the Foundation of the Islamic State in Syria (Donald Whitcomb, University of Chicago). SECTION THREE: RESPONSES. Pastoral Mobility as an Adaptation (Frank Hole, Yale University). Index.

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