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AUTHOR
Claus Ambos
Antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
Dialogo tra antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
Miti, culti, saperi. Per un'antropologia religiosa della Mesopotamia antica
The theoretical and methodological approaches of Cultural and Social Anthropology have long since become indispensable for the study of classical antiquity, so much so that we can speak of a Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World. On the contrary, the dialogue between historians and philologists on the one hand and anthropologists, on the other hand, has been less developed concerning the cultures of the ancient Near East. There are several reasons for this lack of dialogue, the most important of which is the fact that the multilingual cuneiform textual corpus is still largely unpublished and characterized by philological difficulties that make it inaccessible to non-specialists. This…