Perspectives on the history of ancient Near Eastern studies edited by Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction -- Part I The Edge of the Abyss: The Study of Antiquity Under Totalitarian Threat -- Chapter 1 Hittite Studies at the Crossroads: Albrecht Goetze's and Hans Gustav Güterbock's Flight from Nazi Germany -- Chapter 2 Language and Race in Assyriology: From Benno Landsberger to Wolfram von Soden -- Chapter 3 Assyriology in Nazi Germany: The Case of Wolfram von Soden -- Chapter 4 Carthage the Deceitful and Perfidious Albion: The Phoenicians and the British in Fascist Italy -- Chapter 5 The Sharing Out of Antiquities in Syria During the Interwar Period: Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavation at Tell Sheikh Yusuf (Al- Mina) -- Chapter 6 "Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte": On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908-1945) -- Part II Intellectual History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Some Case Studies -- Chapter 7 Notes on the History of the Historiography of Cuneiform Mathematics -- Chapter 8 Feudalism and Vassalage in Twentieth- Century Assyriology -- Chapter 9 Nation Building in the Plain of Antioch from Hatti to Hatay -- Part III From Our Stories to the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies -- Chapter 10 The Historiography of Assyriology in Turkey: A Short Survey -- Chapter 11 Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Portuguese Academia: A Love Affair Under Construction -- Chapter 12 Near Eastern Archaeology and the Czech- Speaking Lands -- Chapter 13 Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890-2017) -- Chapter 14 Assyriology in Iran? -- Chapter 15 Assyriology in China -- Chapter 16 Looking for a Tell: The Beginnings of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Barcelona -- Part IV Current Prospectives, Future Perspectives -- Chapter 17 Big Data, Big Deal: Use of Google Books Ngram Viewer and JSTOR Data for Research for Charting the Rise of Assyriology -- Chapter 18 The Future of the Past: How the Past Contributes to the Construction of Syrian National Identity -- Conclusions -- References

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches--synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational--this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies.

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