Life, death and coming of age in antiquity : individual rites of passage in the ancient Near East and adjacent regions = Vivre, grandir et mourir dans l'antiquité : rites de passage individuels au Proche-Orient ancien et ses environs / edited by Alice Mouton and Julie Patrier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mouton, Alice, editor.

Patrier, Julie, 1983- editor.

Series:

Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 124.

Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies--Middle East--History.

Rites and ceremonies.

Liminality--Middle East--History.

Liminality.

History.

Middle East--Religious life and customs.

Middle East.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Middle East Region.

Physical Description:

xiii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Vivre, grandir et mourir dans l'antiquité

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2014.

Language Note:

Contributions in English and French.

Summary:

Biological and social life of human beings is punctuated by rites of passage. Although some of them are documented in detail, rites of passage in ancient Near Eastern cultures have not previously been presented comprehensively and parallel to each other. A thorough study is achieved in this volume by combining various approaches and disciplines. The basic rites of passage are examined: birth, adolescence, changes of social status, and death. 0The present volume consists of twenty-one contributions by specialists of ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, and neighbouring cultures. It is structured around three main axes: “Becoming someone: The social dimension of rites of passage”, where the interface between the religious sphere and the socio-political structure is examined; “Real life, symbolic life: Ritualized life and death in rites of passage”, or how each threshold crossed by an individual is perceived as a new beginning; and “Liminality and impurity: The dangers of transformation”, which defines the complex relation between notions of purity and impurity and rites of passage.

Contents:

De la ville au temple : l'intronisation du haut-clergé babylonien à la fin du troisième millénaire av. J.-C. / F. Huber Vulliet

Comment devient-on un autre

un heros, un sage, une épouse (divine)? : notes sur des possibles rites de passage dans la culture syro-mésopotamienne ancienne / Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault

Rites of marriage, divorce, and adoption in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia / Norman Yoffee

Purification and liberation of an individual according to Syrian and Hittite texts / Robert Hawley, Alice Mouton, Carole Roche-Hawley

Enthronement of the Hittite king as a royal rite of passage / Amir Gilan, Alice Mouton

Royal rites of passage and calendar festivals in the Hittite world / Susanne Görke, Alice Mouton

Kingship and liminality : rites of passage in the Babylonian akitu festival / Julye Bidmead

Coronation ritual of the sacred living falcon at Edfu : a divine, royal and cyclical rite of passage / Carina van den Hoven

Intégration du mort dans la vie sociale égyptienne à la fin du troisième millénaire av. J.-C. / Sylvie Donnat, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia

Lecture anthropologique des rites de naissance mésopotamiens / Sophie Laribi-Glaudel

Iconographie et archéologie des rites de passage de la petite enfance dans le monde romain : questions méthodologiques / Véronique Dasen

Cyclical character of human life in ancient Egypt and Hittite Anatolia / Marie-Lys Arnette, Christian Greco, Alice Mouton

Funerals, initiation and rituals of life in Pharaonic Egypt / Christopher Eyre

Dépots alimentaires dans les tombes du Proche-Orient ancien d'après les témoignages archéologiques : études de cas / Marie-Lys Arnette, Julie Patrier, Isabelle Sachet

"His wind is released" - the emergence of the ghost : rite of passage in Mesopotamia / Dina Katz

Liminalité, impureté et franchissements rituels en Anatolie hittite / Alice Mouton

Rites of passage and purification in Greece and the Aegean : the second and first millenia B.C. / Daniela Lefèvre-Novaro, Ian Rutherford

Itinéraires initiatiques et poésie rituelle en Grèce ancienne : rites de passage pour adolescentes à Sparte / Claude Calame

Existe-t-il une "homosexualité initiatique"? : pour une anthropologie de la sexualité antique / Sandra Boehringer

Rites de passage en Mésopotamie : le rôle d'Inanna-Ištar / Jean-Jacques Glassner

First glimpses of the liminal hero / Gregory Mobley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789062583355

9062583350

OCLC:

904541422