Beyond Texts
Potentials and Limitations of a Holistic Approach to Collective Fear in Mesopotamia/ANE
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21407955 |
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| Authors | Elisabeth Wagner–Durand (0000-0002-8483-6686, University of Freiburg, corresponding author), Elisabeth Wagner-Durand (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Abteilung für Vorderasiatische Archäologie und Altorientalische Philologie Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Platz der Universität 3 (KG III) D-79085 Freiburg Germany) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-27 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Die Welt des Orients (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-2547 • E-ISSN: 2196-9019 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.13109/wdor.2021.51.1.10 |
| OpenAlex | W3166372468 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Collective fear – or more precisely, the coping and preventive behavior associated with collective fear – is a strong driving force in social, religious and political behavior. While collective fear may be a universal human characteristic, its stimuli, management, and prevention take different shapes throughout time and space. This paper utilizes both texts, as the most obvious and ostensibly most direct sources and the archaeological record, which has not yet played a substantial role in the reconstruction of emotions. In this respect, this paper provides a methodological perspective on the matter of collective fear in the ancient Near East. It explores the potential of textual and material sources, the approaches that can be taken, and the insights we can gain with respect to the social and political structures of past societies of the ancient Near East, where emotions extended into the domains of power, politics and religion
Aesthetics · Art · Coping (psychology) · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Visual arts · Ancient Near East History · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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