Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age: An Anthropology of Politics and Power

ISBN-13: 9780367873134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 246 str.

Emanuel Pfoh

Opis

Syria-Palestine in the Late Bronze Age presents an explicitly anthropological perspective on politics and social relationships. In this volume Pfoh identifies a particular political ontology, native to ancient Syro-Palestinian societies, which informs and constitutes their social worlds. This political ontology, based on patronage relation

Spis treści

Map and Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: SYRIA-PALESTINE DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE

Chapter 1: An Overview of Political History (ca. 1550-1150 BCE)

1. Egypt











2. Ḫatti











3. Mittani











4. Babylonia











5. Assyria











6. Syria-Palestine











7. Egyptian Rule over Syria-Palestine

Chapter 2: ‘International’ Diplomacy during the Late Bronze Age

2.1. Primary and Secondary Sources

2.1.1. The El Amarna Archive

2.1.2. Hittite Archives

2.1.3. Archives from Ugarit

2.1.4. Archives from Alalaḫ

2.1.5. Other Epigraphic Records

2.1.5.1. Documents from Emar

2.1.5.2. Archives from Mari

2.1.5.3. Archives from Nuzi

2.2. On ‘International’ Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age

2.2.1. Egyptian and Asiatic Worldviews

2.3. On the Late Bronze Age Epistolographic Structure

2.3.1. Amarna Socio-Linguistics

Chapter 3: Alliances and Exchanges

3.1. Anthropology and History: Epistemological Preliminaries

3.2. Economic Anthropology of the Late Bronze Age

3.3. Commodities and Exchange of Luxury Goods

3.4. Exchange of Women

3.4.1. Marriage as Social and Political Communication

3.4.2. Hierarchies and Alliances during the Late Bronze Age

3.5. Exchange of Specialists

3.5.1. Techniques and Specialization

3.5.2. Mobility and Hospitality

PART II: POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN SYRIA-PALESTINE

Chapter 4: Socio-Politics of Syria-Palestine (I): Analytical Concepts

4.1. Towards an Historical Anthropology of Syria-Palestine

4.2. On Statehood and State Practice in Syria-Palestine

4.3. City-States in Syria-Palestine?

Chapter 5: Socio-Politics of Syria-Palestine (

O autorze

Emanuel Pfoh is a Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET) and teaches in the Department of History of the National University of La Plata, Argentina.