Friendships, solidarities and conflicts. Reflections on the concept of homosociability from the letters of Mari (S. XVIII BC, Syria)

The aim of this article is to analyze a group of letters from the city of Mari (1175-1762 BC), during the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000- 1500 BC) located on the banks of Euphrates (near the current border between Syria and Iraq). We recover the sources by a theoreticmethodologically perspective of...

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Autor principal: Urbano, Luciana
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2019
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Sumario:The aim of this article is to analyze a group of letters from the city of Mari (1175-1762 BC), during the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000- 1500 BC) located on the banks of Euphrates (near the current border between Syria and Iraq). We recover the sources by a theoreticmethodologically perspective of gender, and specially the concept of homosociability. We consider this concept can be useful to analyze the links that existed between women of the elite in the spaces of everyday life that traditional historiography called harem.