Mountains and trees, rivers and springs: animistic beliefs and practices in ancient Mesopotamian religion
Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Table of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scope of this study and the current state of research -- 3 Sources and methodology -- 4 Synopsis and findings -- Chapter I - Animism and Mesopotamian Religion...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Table of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scope of this study and the current state of research -- 3 Sources and methodology -- 4 Synopsis and findings -- Chapter I - Animism and Mesopotamian Religion -- 1 What is animism? -History of the term in anthropological literature -- 1.1 Classical theories of animism -- 1.1.1 Tylor and the belief in spiritual beings -- 1.1.2 Frazer and the worship of trees -- 1.1.3 Durkheim, and totemism as the most elementary form of religious life -- 1.1.4 Lévi-Strauss and totemism -- 1.2 The current debate over animism -- 1.2.1 Hallowell, the animate world of the Ojibwa and the "other-than-human" persons -- 1.2.2 Bird-David and animism as relational epistemology -- 1.2.3 Descola and the modes of interaction between humans and nature -- 1.2.4 Viveiros de Castro and Amerindian perspectivism -- 1.2.5 Harvey and the new animism -- 2 The state of research into Mesopotamian religion -- 2.1 Bottéro and the predominant view of an anthropomorphic divine -- 2.2 Jacobsen and the concepts of immanence and intransitiveness -- 2.3 Lambert and the non-anthropomorphic gods -- 2.4 Wiggermann, van Binsbergen and the "embedded holistic elements" -- 2.5 Anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic deities in Mesopotamia -- Chapter II - Sacred Mountains and Mountain Deities -- 1 The mountain: an entangled sacred being in Mesopotamia and beyond -- 2 The mountain -- 2.1 The cosmic mountain in mythical literature and iconography -- 2.2 Liminal places and origin of pure and threatening entities in incantations -- 2.3 The Mountain-person and the Mountain-god in incantations, rituals andiconography -- 3 Specifically named mountains -- 3.1 Mountains in the Lipšur Litanies as healing "other-than-human" persons -- 3.2 Mount Ebiḫ, Aratta and the Zagros. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| ISBN: | 3447199350 |