Luxury And Legitimation
Subtitle: Royal Collecting In Ancient Mesopotamia (Perspectives on Collecting)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754602385
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Material culture; History; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History: World; Popular Culture - General; Collectors and collecting; Ancient - General; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian; Iraq
First sentence: Before an inquiry into Mesopotamian collecting can begin, it is necessary to understand the theoretical foundations upon which it stands.