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Democracy's ancient ancestors : Mari and early collective governance /
Daniel E. Fleming examines the political landscape of the ancient Near East through the archive of over 3000 letters found in the royal palace of Mari. These letters display a rich diversity of political actors, encompassing major kingdoms, smaller states and various tribal towns.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- A. Mari Texts
- B. Survey of Mari History
- C. Note on Prominent Terms
- D. Mari Archives and Political History
- E. Text-Based Study: Comments on Methodology
- 2. Tribal World of Zimri-Lim
- A. Tribally Organized Pastoralists and the Amorrites
- B. Primary Constituents of the Confederacies: Sim'alite gayum and Yaminite li'mum
- C. Local Leader of Tribe and Town: The sugagum in Service to the Mari Kingdom
- D. Chief of Pasture: The merhum
- E. "Hana" Tent-Dwellers
- F. Other Confederacy: The Yaminites
- 3. Archaic State and the matum "Land"
- A. Urbanism and Archaic States
- B. matum: The Basic Unit of Regional Politics in the Early Second Millennium
- C. Subdividing the Major matums: The halsum District
- D. Population Terminology Not Tied to Political Entity
- E. Zimri-Lim and the Land of the Tent-Dwellers (mat Hana)
- 4. Collective and the Town
- A. Towns of the Mari Archives
- B. Corporate Political Tradition
- C. Collective Face of Towns or Lands
- D. Elders
- E. Heads
- F. Words for Assembly
- G. Imar, Tuttul, and Urgis: Old Towns with Strong Collective Traditions
- H. Mari in Third-Millennium Mesopotamia
- I. On Explaining Corporate Power
- 5. Conclusions
- A. Political World of the Mari Archives
- B. Democracy's Ancient Ancestors.