Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - Andrea Seri
LOCAL POWER AND THE WRITING OF OLD BABYLONIAN HISTORY
Local Power in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - Andrea Seri
Andrea Seri [+]
University of Chicago
Andrea Seri is Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago.
Description
This chapter provides a synthesis of the problems explored throughout the book. The author maintains that an evaluation of the ways in which Mesopotamian history has been written together with a survey of certain historiographical analyses is fundamental if we are to pursue alternative was of thinking about Old Babylonian society. My conclusion shows that the study of a a number of relatively independent local authorities allows us to approach ancient history from a place other than the state or the communities.