Visualizing emotions in the ancient Near East /

The history of emotion is an important interdisciplinary research field, not least because it touches fundamental questions about the distinction between psychobiology-based universals and sociocultural, path-dependent and thus relative peculiarities. Conceptual incongruities between what is today u...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Rencontre assyriologique internationale
Other Authors: Kipfer, Sara, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
German
Language Notes:Eight English and four German contributions.
Published: Fribourg, Switzerland : Göttingen, Germany : Academic Press ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2017]
Series:Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 285.
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Table of Contents:
  • Visualizing emotions in the Ancient Near East : an introduction / Sara Kipfer
  • Porträts altorientalischer Herrscher? Individualität oder Rolle / Othmar Keel
  • Der stumme Schrei : Kritische Überlegungen zu Emotionen als Untersuchungsfeld der altorientalischen Bildwissenschaft / Dominik Bonatz
  • Visualization of emotions : potentials and obstacles : a response to Dominik Bonatz / Elisabeth Wagner-Durand
  • The iconography of emotions in the Ancient Near East and in Ancient Egypt / Wolfgang Zwickel
  • "The eyes have it and the benign smile" : the iconography of emotions in the Ancient Near East : from gestures to facial expressions? / Izak Cornelius
  • Kulturelle Rollen : keine Gefühle! Eine Response zu Izak Cornelius / Silvia Schroer
  • Analyzing "emotions" in ancient media : between skepticism and conceptual autonomy ("Eigenbegrifflichkeit") / Florian Lippke
  • The discourse on emotion in ancient Mesopotamia : a theoretical approach / Margaret Jaques
  • Emotionen in Text, Sprache und materialen Bildern : eine Skizze aus Sicht der Metaphemanalyse / Andreas Wagner
  • Emotion and the ancient arts : visualizing, materializing, and producing states of being / Karen Sonik
  • Epilogue : on ancient pictorial representations of emotion : concluding comments with examples from Egypt / John Baines.