Outside the Pale: Marginality and Liminality in the Bronze Age Near East. Introduction
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Susan L. Cohen
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Jana Mynářová
Abstract
Studies of the Bronze Age in the ancient world traditionally have focused on mainstream populations, together with their social organization, and the economic subsistence strategies implemented by them. As a result, those people who lived on the edges of society, whether defined geographically, socially, demographically, or economically, have received correspondingly less attention. Yet, peoples on the margins of mainstream populations fulfilled roles integral to the primary economic and social systems in Bronze Age cultures in the ancient Near Eastern and North African world. This concept of marginal and/or liminal groups in the ancient world, the importance of examining them, and different methods of addressing them, are presented here, as the introduction to the collected papers on marginality and liminality in the Bronze Age world of the ancient Near East and North Africa in this special issue of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Outside the Pale: Marginality and Liminality in the Bronze Age Near East. Introduction
- Defining Marginality and Liminality for the Study of the Ancient Near East
- Not Marginal, But Marginalised. The ‘Pan-Grave’ Archaeological Culture, Pharaonic Egypt, and Egyptology
- Marginal Communities and Cooperative Strategies in the Kerma Pastoral State
- The Negev in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Questions of Subsistence, Trade, and Status
- Debt and Credit: Entangling the Marginal and Liminal in the Non-monetary Economies of Bronze Age Ugarit
- Sacred Spaces and Liminal Behavior in Levantine Temples in Antis
- Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden (šerdanu)
- The Participation of Marginal and Liminal Groups in Secondary State Formation under the Third Dynasty of Ur
- Hard Times for Sippar Women: Three Late Old Babylonian Cases
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Outside the Pale: Marginality and Liminality in the Bronze Age Near East. Introduction
- Defining Marginality and Liminality for the Study of the Ancient Near East
- Not Marginal, But Marginalised. The ‘Pan-Grave’ Archaeological Culture, Pharaonic Egypt, and Egyptology
- Marginal Communities and Cooperative Strategies in the Kerma Pastoral State
- The Negev in the Intermediate Bronze Age: Questions of Subsistence, Trade, and Status
- Debt and Credit: Entangling the Marginal and Liminal in the Non-monetary Economies of Bronze Age Ugarit
- Sacred Spaces and Liminal Behavior in Levantine Temples in Antis
- Liminal People(s) in the Late Bronze Age Levant? A New Light on Sherden (šerdanu)
- The Participation of Marginal and Liminal Groups in Secondary State Formation under the Third Dynasty of Ur
- Hard Times for Sippar Women: Three Late Old Babylonian Cases
