Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia

by Zainab Bahrani and Dina Nayeri

Rituals of war and images of violence in Mesopotamia ca. 3000-500 BCE examined as "magical technologies of warfare."

Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient (ca. 3000-500 BCE) Iraqi rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. In Rituals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951846
• ISBN13: 9781890951849
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher