Dance in Ancient Mesopotamia

Collon, Dominique

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“…Belly dancing too has been viewed through a patriarchal gaze by dancers and by others in society (Deagon, 1999;Keft-Kennedy, 2005;Wright et al, 1998). Contemporary belly dancers are subject to, and bearers of, the established discourse and the associated meanings, relations of power, and rules and regulations that have shaped the practice of belly dancing to date (Bock, 2005;Collon, 2003;Conover, 2007;Desmond, 1993;Kelly, 2008;Koritz, 1994;Garfias, 1984;Mazar, 2003;McDearmon, 1978;van Niewkerk, 1995;Sharif, 2004;Shay, 1995;Spencer, 2003;Walkowitz, 2003). The objective of this thesis is to investigate the discourses that women use to articulate the meanings and understandings they have about the practice of belly dancing from a poststructuralist standpoint.…”

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“…Belly dancing is a form of dance that has been referred to within the literature as an activity with unique historical, cultural and social meanings that have survived since Ancient times in the Middle East (Biran, 2003;Collon, 2003;Conover, 2007;Dallal, 2005;Dox, 2006;Garfinkel, 2003;Geer, 1992;Mazar, 2003;Sellers-Young, 1992;Sharif, 2004;Shay & Sellers-Young, 2003;Spencer, 2003;Tubb, 2003).…”

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“…Some of literature proposes that dance and belly dancing has survived from Ancient times in the Middle East, and has existed in the context of a relationship to numinous, religious or culturally significant activities (Collon, 2003;Mazar, 2003;Sharif, 2004;Spencer, 2003). However there has been recent debate over the authenticity of some conclusions drawn about dance which have associated contemporary styles of belly dancing with ancient forms of dance.…”

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Baskin¹

2018

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography

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Baskin¹

2018

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography

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“…Mesopotamia is a historical region in West Asia situated within the Tigris-Euphrates rivers system. In modern days, roughly corresponding to most of Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Northern Saudi Arabia, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran-Iraq borders [23] (Fig. 1).…”

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Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Mesopotamian Plain, Iraq: A Critical Review

2021

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The Mesopotamian Plain is part of the Mesopotamia which extends for vast area bigger than the plain. The plain is almost flat and vast lowland, which has clearly defined physiographic boundaries with the other surrounding physiographic provinces. The plain is a huge accumulation geomorphologic unit, where the fluvial, lacustrine, and the Aeolian landforms prevail; the fluvial units being the abundant among others. However, estuarine and marine forms also are developed, but restricted to the extreme southeastern reaches of the plain. The Mesopotamian Plain is covered totally by Quaternary sediments among which the fluvial origin is the most prevailing and more specifically the flood plain sediments. The flood plain sediments are the Holocene in age, whereas the Pleistocene sediments are restricted to alluvial fan sediments and river terraces. The flood plain sediments cover majority of the Mesopotamian Plain, whereas the alluvial sediments are restricted to the northern-eastern, western and southern peripheral parts only. Different geomorphological features indicate the Neotectonic activity in the plain, such as migrations of rivers due to growing of subsurface anticlines. The extreme southeastern part is covered by the tidal flat and sabkha sediments. Marshes and shallow depressions are also covered by the Holocene sediments which are contaminated by the Aeolian sediments. Mesopotamian Plain is a part of the Mesopotamian Foredeep which is a part of the Zagros Foreland Basin including the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt. It is large continuously subsiding basin since the Upper Miocene (11.62 Ma). The plain shows no structural features on the surface, except the main fault escarpment representing the part of Abu Jir Active Fault Zone. However, the rolling topography, in the northern parts of the plain indicates subsurface anticlines that are still growing up, such as Balad, Samarra, Tikrit and Baiji anticlines indicating the Neotectonic activity. Moreover, many buried subsurface anticlines are present in different parts of the plain. All of them are growing anticlines and have caused continuous shift to Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their distributaries indicating the Neotectonic activities. The minimum and maximum subsidence amounts in the plain since the Upper Miocene are zero and -2500 m, respectively.

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“…Research on the dance of ancient civilizations deals mainly with classical Greece (Lawler 1964;Lonsdale 2000;Naerebout 1997) and has only rarely dealt with the deeper past, in studies devoted to the cultures of ancient Israel (Gruber 1981;Mazar 2003), the Bronze Age Aegean (Aamodt 2014;Warren 1984), ancient Egypt (Garfinkel 2001;Quack 2009;Schachter 2014;Spencer 2003;Van Lepp 1989) and ancient Mesopotamia (Collon 2003;Gabbay 2003;Matoušová 1970). These studies, however, examine dance mainly from the cultural point of view and not necessarily in its social context.…”

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The Evolution of Human Dance: Courtship, Rites of Passage, Trance, Calendrical Ceremonies and the Professional Dancer

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2018

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A model of five major chronological phases is suggested for the history of human dance. These phases did not replace one another, but accumulated as successive layers. The earliest phase is associated with courtship, thus explaining the potent role of dance in sexual desire and seduction. The second phase is associated with the appearance of modern human behaviour and the earliest burials, which were rites of passage that involved the first communal dances. The third phase is associated with the appearance of hybrid human-animal figurines that point to altered states of consciousness and aspirations to change reality; this is when trance dance, shamanism, magic and religion came in. The fourth phase is connected with the beginning of agriculture in Neolithic villages, which was coordinated by elaborate calendrical ceremonies. The fifth and final phase is associated with urban societies, economic complexity and specialization; well-trained professional dancers now performed acrobatic body movements and elaborate choreography for the enjoyment of others. The history of dance thus reflects the history of human rituals and religion.

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Dance in Ancient Mesopotamia

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Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Tectonics of the Mesopotamian Plain, Iraq: A Critical Review

The Evolution of Human Dance: Courtship, Rites of Passage, Trance, Calendrical Ceremonies and the Professional Dancer

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