The Power of Human Speech in Hittite Anatolia

Performance and Performativity of Telipinu’s mugawar (CTH 324)

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ID21486121
AuthorsRomina Della Casa (0000-0001-5070-3757, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume48
Issue1
Pages65-75
Publication date2021-06-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAltorientalische Forschungen (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0232-8461 • E-ISSN: 2196-6761
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/aofo-2021-0004
OpenAlexW3168310542
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited30

With the aim of improving our understanding of how Hittite practitioners in ancient Anatolia used human speech to achieve a desired efficacy or performativity (and therefore change a current situation), this paper explores the ritual character of Telipinu’s mugawar (CTH 324) and its historiola . Along these lines, it examines what traces of human agency are present in the text, and under which circumstances its performance would have been most valuable. Considered from a broader perspective, this study also aims to link Hittite texts to the lives of Anatolia’s inhabitants and to the many ways they did things with words

Ancient history · Art · Hittite language · Linguistics · Literature · Performative utterance · Performativity · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy

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