Death rituals, ideology, and the development of early Mesopotamian kingship
Subtitle: toward a new understanding of Iraq's royal cemetery of Ur
By: Andrew C. Cohen.
Series: Studies in ancient magic and divination ;; v. 7
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Iraq -- Ur (Extinct city); Kingship -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500.; Ideology -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500.; Ur (Extinct city)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology; title: Introduction; title: Ritual as potentially transformative social action; title: Death rituals, their structure and stakes; title: Recovering ritual acts from the textual and archaeological records; title: Activities of mourning; title: Activities surrounding the corpse; title: Activities surrounding the ghost; title: Death rituals and the royal ideology; title: Conclusion: Death rituals as a locus for negotiating power relations.