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![]() Religion CompassVolume 2 Issue 4, Pages 455 - 483 Published Online: 28 Jun 2008 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 233K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking Mesopotamian Medicine and Religion: Current Debates, New Perspectives Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ABSTRACTThe study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo-Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio-intellectual context. Religion Compass 2/4 (2008): 455–483, 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00082.x |