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100 1 _aHarmanşah, Ömür.
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245 1 0 _aCities and the shaping of memory in the ancient Near East /
_cÖmür Harmanşah.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axix, 351 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-341) and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note : 1. Introduction -- 2. Landscapes of change : cities, politics, and memory -- 3. The land of Assur : the making of Assyrian landscapes -- 4. City and the festival : monuments, urban space, and spatial narratives -- 5. Upright stones : architectural technologies and the poetics of urban space -- 6. Cities, place, and desire.
520 _a"This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments, and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural, and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history, and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aCollective memory
_zMiddle East.
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650 0 _aCities and towns
_xHistory
_zMiddle East.
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910 _aNIT Ana Koleksiyonu
003 Devinim
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