The Roving Other: Shepherds, Ungovernable Spaces, and Imperial Authority in First-Millennium Mesopotamia
Much of the literature on pastoralists and empire concerns mobile tribes and often focuses on imperial schemes of resettlement, or tribal thwarting of state initiatives. This submission argues that in mid-first-millennium BCE Babylonia, large bureaucratic temples stood between the imperial state an...
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| Language: | English |
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Finnish Oriental Society
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Orientalia Electronica |
| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/store/article/view/89492 |