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Título: | On the Ancient Mesopotamian Concept of "Taboo" |
Autor: | Böck, Barbara CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 2016 | Editor: | Mohr Siebeck | Citación: | A. Weissenrieder (ed.), Borders: Terminologies, Ideologies and Performances. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016, 305-321 | Resumen: | Transgressions of the Ancient Mesopotamian religious, moral and social code
are subject to divine punishment and are followed by all types of misfortune.
Both the Sumerian and Akkadian languages have provided a rich vocabulary to
describe the concept of the invisible line or zone that separates good from evil,
the sacred from the profane, and the appropriate from the improper, as well as
terms for the physical marking of the border between these areas in rituals. Often
the word “taboo” is employed to refer to something which is set apart from
the ordinary and as such consecrated or prohibited.1 As a term borrowed from
another cultural worldview and religious outlook, “taboo” does not properly
fit the Ancient Mesopotamian evidence2 and has been used here only initially
in the meaning of “something inapproachable or unattainable” and therefore
“untouchable.” The following discussion addresses the issues of the native terminology and its underlying cognitive concept, the forms of transgression and their contextual frame, the physical impact of divine punishment on the human body, and those rituals that set an example for the function of borders. |
Versión del editor: | https://www.mohr.de/en/book/borders-terminologies-ideologies-and-performances-9783161543753 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/148534 | ISBN: | 978-3-16-154375-3 |
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