Experiencing Power, Generating Authority
ISBN: 9781934536650
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Political anthropology.; Power (Social sciences); Political customs and rites; Divine right of kings.; Kings and rulers;

Experiencing Power, Generating Authority offers a cross-cultural comparison of the cosmic ideology and political structure of kingship in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.


Jane A. Hill is Director of the Predynastic Egyptian Collections Project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and a Consulting Scholar in the Museum's Egyptian Section. She also teaches anthropology at Rowan University. Philip Jones is Associate Curator in the Babylonian Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Executive Editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project. Antonio J. Morales is Research Associate at the Institute of Egyptology of the Freie Universitat Berlin.
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