Imperialist Networks: Ancient Assyria and the United States

Bernbeck, Reinhard

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“…Such remappings of political space introduce new ways to think about comparisons across time and space. Drawing on Liverani's (1988) that the Assyrian Empire was not "a spread of land, but a network of communications over which material goods are carried" (p. 86), Bernbeck (2010) draws comparisons to the United States in the late twentieth century. Bernbeck argues that both systems relied on military bases that enabled domination over alien territories.…”

Section: Border Assemblagesmentioning

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Discussions of boundaries have enjoyed a renaissance in anthropological archaeology of recent years, especially as conversations surrounding forced migration and border walls look toward the material record for clarification about what borders are and what they do. Since 1995, when the Annual Review of Anthropology last addressed a similar issue, numerous methodological and conceptual changes in the field have led to a large proliferation in the literature. A brief Google Scholar search of the words “archaeology,” “boundaries,” and “work” between 1995 and the present produces 365,000 results and makes one point clear: Archaeologists have had a lot to say about the topic. By framing this review around the work of boundaries, I signal two trends in the field of archaeology with conceptual and methodological implications. The first trend is the increased centrality of materiality as a theoretical register as new questions relating to object agency, human/nonhuman boundaries, and new models of environmental archaeology have populated the literature. In such climates it is important to focus on boundaries as a kind of assemblage of actants that takes on agencies beyond notions of territory. Associated border, crossing, transnational, and refuge assemblages are discussed. The second trend is the increased attention to boundary work in archaeology. Whether it is in the form of postcolonial/decolonizing archaeologies, new materialities/symmetrical archaeologies, or contemporary archaeologies, there has been increased pushback against attempts to define anthropological archaeology along processual lines. In this article I review one thread of that literature, critical cartographies, and how they have used the archaeological record to develop radical renditions of political space where boundaries are involved. I focus on scholarship surrounding the relatively recent past (ca. 1200 CE to the present). Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Border Assemblagesmentioning

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Hauser

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…For the Levant specifically see (Bloom 1988;Stern 2001). Economic gain has been commonly accepted as the primary motivation for Assyrian territorial expansion, with Liverani first suggesting a model of the NeoAssyrian Empire as a 'network empire ' (1988); while more recently Bernbeck (2010) has compared the empire to the modern United States. It seems unlikely that the Assyrian empire was established as a territorial or a colonial type of empire, the so-called 'oil stain' model: the model of a 'network empire' seems more apt.…”

Section: Evidence Of Neo-assyrian Influence In Philistia and The Soutmentioning

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Tell Jemmeh, Philistia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the Late Iron Age

Ben‐Shlomo

2014

Levant

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The site of Tell Jemmeh near Gaza has long been suggested as the location of an Assyrian administrative centre or even the seat of an Assyrian governor. This paper revisits this issue in the light of the more comprehensive evidence we now have on the site from Van Beek's excavations. Tell Jemmeh yielded both architectural features (in plans and building techniques) and Assyrian-style pottery that link it strongly to the Neo-Assyrian world. Whether these links indicate a massive Neo-Assyrian presence at the site, or that the site was an Assyrian administrative centre is still an open question. The archaeological and textual evidence from this period will be combined in order to examine the nature and extent of Neo-Assyrian influence on Tell Jemmeh in particular, and on Philistia in general. The characteristics of each of the Assyrian features will be studied in detail in order to assess its significance with regard to the Assyrian connection and the regional historical background. It seems that the Neo-Assyrian Empire had special interests in the region of Philistia and its city-states, together with other regions in the southern Levant. However, the nature of these interests, of imperial policies, and the consequences for the local cultures may have changed during the reign of the different Assyrian rulers during the late 8th and early 7th centuries BC. The management of the Assyrian Empire in its distant provinces and vassaldoms will also be discussed in the light of the archaeological evidence.

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“…Sobre a importância militar, estratégica e econômica das deportações, cf. :LIVERANI, 2020, p. 667;LIVERANI, 1988;BERNBECK, 2010;REDE, 2018.…”

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No Princípio, Deus criou: a cosmogonia como estratégia retórica para a reconstrução de laços coletivos nos séculos VI e V AEC

Onodera

2023

Humanid. diálogo

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Neste artigo, analisamos a forma como a tradição profética do Segundo Isaías utiliza o tema da criação como recurso retórico e mnemônico durante a reconstrução da comunidade judaíta no exílio, após as deportações do século VI AEC. Para isso, analisamos inicialmente os estudos sobre os impactos do fenômeno diaspórico na construção de identidades coletivas na Antiguidade. Em seguida, partimos para uma discussão sobre a memória coletiva e seus mecanismos de transmissão entre gerações frente ao trauma e à destruição. Por fim, a partir dos capítulos 43 e 44 de Isaías, analisamos como a profecia recupera e ressignifica o tema da Criação, analisando os possíveis impactos dessa temática na reconstrução dos laços coletivos e representações culturais na diáspora, durante os séculos VI e V AEC.

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Imperialist Networks: Ancient Assyria and the United States

Cited by 21 publications

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The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past

Tell Jemmeh, Philistia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the Late Iron Age

No Princípio, Deus criou: a cosmogonia como estratégia retórica para a reconstrução de laços coletivos nos séculos VI e V AEC

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