The Topography of Remembrance, The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia.

The Topography of Remembrance, The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia.

The Topography of Remembrance deals with different forms of remembrance and collective memory in Mesopotamia, discussing both its public (national) and private (family) aspects. The Introduction offers a history of modern, European memory in comparison with the Mesopotamian mode. The research adds t...

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Main Author: Gerdien Jonker

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1995.

Series: Numen Book Series 68.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Memory > Religious aspects.
Death > Iraq.
Memorial rites and ceremonies > Iraq.
Assyro-Babylonian religion.

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Call Number: BL1625.M45 J66 1995

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Boundaries of Cultural Memory
  • The Building Blocks of Memory
  • Transmission from Image to Imagery
  • Choices I
  • Choices II
  • Continuity and Change in the Ebabbar of Sippar
  • The Place of the Past in Mesopotamia
  • The Topography of the Dead
  • Genealogies
  • Epilogue
  • Chronological Tables
  • Plates and Illustrations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.