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Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia
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A groundbreaking analysis of the arts of war in ancient Mesopotamia
Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In ancient Iraq (ca.3000-500 BC) rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. Building on Michel Foucault’s argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a technology of representation, Zainab Ba...
Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In ancient Iraq (ca.3000-500 BC) rituals of war and images of violence constituted part of the magical technologies of warfare that formed the underlying irrational processes of war. Building on Michel Foucault’s argument in Discipline and Punish that the art of punishing must rest on a technology of representation, Zainab Ba...