Flesh and bones : the individual and his body in the ancient Mediterranean basin /
This volume gathers the papers presented during an interdisciplinary research seminar entitled The individual and his body in the ancient Mediterranean Basin. This seminar was at the crossroads of history of religions and social anthropology, creating a dialogue between philologists, archaeologists,...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Brepols,
[2020]
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| Series: | Semitica & classica. Supplementa ;
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| Summary: | This volume gathers the papers presented during an interdisciplinary research seminar entitled The individual and his body in the ancient Mediterranean Basin. This seminar was at the crossroads of history of religions and social anthropology, creating a dialogue between philologists, archaeologists, historians of religions and anthropologists. Its main aim consisted in studying self-perceptions of the body in the ancient Near East, with incursions in other parts of the Mediterranean Basin in a comparatist perspective. In this volume, various themes are examined, such as the relationship between the body and language, the body, perceptions and society, including a study of the senses as they are described in the texts, the body as a symbol of social belonging and the body as a medium for religious experience. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume gathers the papers presented at an interdisciplinary research seminar entitled 'The Individual and His Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin.' This monthly seminar, which took place between September 2016 and December 2019 at the CNRS building in Ivry-sur-Seine and, at the same time, through a videoconferencing program, hosted 22 presentations in total"--Page 5. |
| Physical Description: | 238 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9782503590387 2503590381 |