Vanessa Bigot Juloux and Alessandro di Ludovico, with the cooperation of Valeria degli Abbati and Randall W. Younker.

Anthropology and Interaction between Violence, Order, and Conflict in the Ancient World
 

edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux and Alessandro di Ludovico, with the cooperation of Valeria degli Abbati and Randall W. Younker

Violence is a defining feature of a wide range of human activities and is often implicitly or explicitly present in recurring cultural phenomena such as religious rituals, folktales and the enforcement of legal provisions. Violence is related to fundamental social and cultural features, as well as virtually any act of foundation or radical change carried out by humans. This collection of essays consists of the developments of various studies presented at two international conferences on violence in the ancient world, as well as a few contributions written specifically for this publication. The volume critically explores diverse manifestations of violence in West Asia and the Mediterranean from the early historical periods to the Middle Ages. Fourteen contributions examine different forms of violence identified in historical events, ancient texts (including descriptions of rituals, law codes, chronicles, and mythical narratives) and visual languages. Adopting authentic interdisciplinary approaches, the authors use concepts and refer to theories derived from cultural anthropology, cognitive science, semiotics, mathematics, literary studies, political science, psychology, sociology, the history of religion, jurisprudence and philosophy. Thus, a wide range of insights and case studies are presented from different perspectives in this collection, which nonetheless forms a coherent publication addressing the themes of perception, legitimisation, symbolisation and strategies of violence. The aim is to pave the way for further developments in the anthropology of violence in the ancient world. This volume has been designed to be useful for researchers at all levels, as well as for university students and teaching staff.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: 

Introduction - Vanessa Bigot Juloux and Alessandro di Ludovico, On Violence in Ancient    

    Cultures: Customs, Episodes, and Socio-Political Dynamics 
 

Part I - Symbolising Violence 
Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira, Destruction, Chaos, and Famine: Rural Contexts  

    Expressing Threatened Societies 
Amanda R. Morrow, Unveiling the Poetics of Violence: A Short Survey of the Neo- 

    Babylonian Period Judah through the lenses of Archaeological and Textual Evidence 
Maps of Part I 
 
Part II - Tactics, Strategies, and Violence 
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Sanna Nurmikko-Metsola, A Strategy of Violence? Using Game  

    Theory to Analyse Political Power in the Ancient Near East 
Bertrand Augier, Officers and Commoners: Coercion and Individual Exemplarity as  

    Foundations of the Officers’ Authority in the Civil Wars (49-31 bce) 
Pavel Basharin, Mahdist Movements of the Tenth Century in Baġdād 
Maps of Part II 
 
Part III - Legitimization of Violence, Legitimization and Violence 
Ilaria Calini, Wuthering Gods. Power and “Just” Violence in Ancient Mesopotamia 
Martha T. Roth, On Executions in Ancient Mesopotamia: Public Decapitation by Next-of-Kin 
Virginie Muller, Violent Deaths: Political and Religious Justifications According to Akkadian  

    Texts (Second – First Millennium bce) 
Joanna Töyräänvuori, Egypto-Hittite Relations and the Myth of Divine Combat in the Late  

    Bronze Age Ugarit Reconsidered 
Nicolas Wyatt, War in Heaven: the Ugaritian Ideology of Warfare as Reflected in Ilimilku's  

    Baal Cycle 
Maps of Part III 
 
Part IV - Representation and Perception of Violence 
Laura Battini, The Message of Violence and Its Audience in the Third Millennium bce  

    Mesopotamia 
Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel, Violence and the Senses: Exploring Dystopia in Cuneiform  

    Texts (Second-First Millennia bce) 
Niv Allon, Administrative Violence in the New Kingdom (1550-1070 bce) 
Nicolas Wyatt, All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: Reflections on Kirta 
Maps of Part IV 
 

Afterword 
Andrea Di Carlo, Old Violence, New Interpretations? A Multifocal Interpretation of Violence 
 

Glossaries 
 

Indexes 

Serie + Nummer: AOAT 476

ISBN: 978-3-86835-373-0

Erscheinungsjahr: 2025

Seitenanzahl: xi + … pp.

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