The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East 1st Edition by Kiersten Neumann ,Allison Thomason ISBN 0367235285 978-0367235284

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Author:Kiersten Neumann ,Allison Thomason 

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.

Table of contents: 

1.Part I: Practice, Production, and Taskscapes

The Sense of Practice: A Case Study of Tablet Sealing at Nippur in the Ur III Period (c. 2112–2004 BCE), Marian H. Feldman

Senses and Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages (1550–1100 BCE), Caroline Sauvage

New Sensory Experiences through Technological Innovation: The Usage and Production of Transparent Drinking Bowls in the Neo-Assyrian Palace, Katharina Schmidt

To Touch Upon: A Tactile Exploration of the Apadana Reliefs at Persepolis, Kiersten Neumann

Soundscapes and Taskscapes in the Ancient Near East: Interactions and Perceptions, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Mireia López-Bertran

2.Part II: Dress and the Body
6. Adornment Practices in the Ancient Near East and the Question of Embodied Boundary Maintenance, Josephine Verduci
7. Dress, Sensory Assemblages, and Identity in the Early First Millennium at Hasanlu, Iran, Megan Cifarelli
8. Beyond the Flesh: Sensing Identity through the Body and Skin in Mesopotamian Contexts, Sarah J. Scott
9. A Sense of Scale: Proprioception, Embodied Subjectivities, and the Space of Kingship at Persepolis, Neville McFerrin

3.Part III: Ritualised Practice and Ceremonial Spaces
10. Temple Ritual as Gesamtkunstwerk: Stimulation of the Senses and Aesthetic Experience in a Religious Context, Irene Winter
11. Pure Stale Water: Experiencing Jewish Purifications Rituals in Early Roman Palestine, Rick Bonnie
12. Megaliths and Miniatures: Scale and the Senses in the Early Neolithic, Sarah Kielt Costello
13. Sensing Salience in the Landscapes of Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae, Jen Thum
14. In the Light and In the Dark: Exhibiting Power, Exploiting Spaces in Early and Old Syrian Ebla: An Analysis of the Five Senses in an Early Syrian Court, Frances Pinnock
15. The Ishtar Gate: A Sensescape of Divine Agency, Beate Pongratz-Leisten
16. The Jerusalem Temple: A Sensory Encounter with the Sacred, Christine Elizabeth Palmer
17. The Ancient Synagogue at Nabratein: The Acoustic Dynamics of Architectural Change, Paul V. M. Flesher

4.Part IV: Death and Burial
18. Sensing the Ancestors: The Importance of Senses in Constructing Ancestorship in the Ancient Near East, Nicola Laneri
19. Sensing the Dead in Household Burials of the Second Millennium BCE, Melissa S. Cradic
20. The Smells of Eternity: Aromatic Oils and Resins in the Phoenician Mortuary Record, Helen Dixon
21. The Sixth Sense: Multisensory Encounters with the Dead in Roman Egypt, Lissette M. Jiménez

5.Part V: Science, Medicine, and Aesthetics
22. Seeing Stars: Knowing the Sky in Mesopotamia, M. Willis Monroe
23. Sensory Experience in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine, Ulrike Steinert
24. The Understanding of Intellectual and Sensorial Impairment in the Hebrew Bible, Edgar Kellenberger
25. The Distant Eye and the Ekphrastic Image: Thinking Through Aesthetics and Art for the Senses (Western/Non-Western), Karen Sonik

6.Part VI: Languages and Semantic Fields
26. Language Technology Approach to “Seeing” in Akkadian, Aleksi Sahala and Saana Svärd
27. Metaphors of Perception Verbs in Ancient Egyptian: The Proximal Senses, Elisabeth Steinbach-Eicke
28. Metaphors of Sensory Experience in Ancient Egyptian Texts: Emotion, Personality, and Social Interaction, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Gaëlle Chantrain
29. Smellscapes in Ancient Egypt, Dora Goldsmith
30. Crossing Sensory Boundaries: From Vocabulary to Physical Experience, Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
31. Open Your Ears and Listen! The Role of the Senses Among the Hittites, Richard H. Beal
32. Hearing and Seeing in Hurrian, Dennis R. M. Campbell

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