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RITUALS OF WAR
THE BODY AND VIOLENCE IN MESOPOTAMIA
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Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000500 BC) rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. In the book, three lines of inquiry are converged into one historical domain of violence, namely, war, the body, and representation. Building on Foucaults argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a whole techno...Status: With stock
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DetailsPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2008
278 Pages
Format: Tela
ISBN: 9781890951849
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Old history
