MARIO LIVERANI. Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Edited and with a foreword by Zainab Bahrani and Marc van de Mieroop. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 214. $75.00
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 112; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.112.2.621
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Eurasian Exchange Networks
ResumoMario Liverani has long been one of the most important minds in the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, evidenced by the fact that he has trained such important students as Frederick Mario Fales, Carlo Zaccagnini, and Lucio Milano. His pioneering works in the field of historiography have been groundbreaking (e.g. Prestige and Interest: International Relations in the Near East ca. 1600–1100 B.C. [1990]). However, a significant portion of his work has not been translated into English; thus, Zainab Bahrani and Marc van de Mieroop are to be congratulated not only for collecting and introducing these essays but also for editing Liverani's English style. All eight were originally published in either Italian or French between 1973 and 1983. Although a generation old (and thus arriving at conclusions perhaps not startling to the reader), the essays grapple with problems that have only recently come to the forefront of ancient Near Eastern studies, drawing on the author's vast knowledge of new intellectual trends in the fields of social anthropology, gender studies, intellectual Marxism, and the French Annales historical school.
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