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001 2010052225
003 DLC
005 20111222075806.0
008 101210s2011 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010052225
020 $a9780521764438 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-iq---$aaw-----
050 00 $aDS73.1$b.P67 2011
082 00 $a939/.4$222
084 $aSOC003000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPorter, Anne,$d1957-
245 10 $aMobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations :$bweaving together society /$cAnne Porter.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
263 $a1108
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 2 $aThe problem with pastoralists -- Wool, writing, and religion -- From temple to tomb -- Tax and tribulation, or, Who were the Amorrites?
651 0 $aIraq$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aIraq$xCivilization$yTo 634.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xCivilization$yTo 622.
650 0 $aPastoral systems$zMiddle East$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aMigration, Internal$zMiddle East$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aSedentary behavior$zMiddle East$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zIraq.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zMiddle East.
650 0 $aArchaeology$xMethodology.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology$2bisacsh.