In between human–animal bodies: transcorporeal experiences in hittite anatolia
This study traces material movement across human–nonhuman animal bodies (henceforth human–animal) during ritual performances in which patients from Hittite Anatolia spat into an animal’s mouth. It explores the transference of pollution through the lens of theoretical approaches that reflect on bod...
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Brill
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/19121 |
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| Sumario: | This study traces material movement across human–nonhuman animal bodies
(henceforth human–animal) during ritual performances in which patients from
Hittite Anatolia spat into an animal’s mouth. It explores the transference of pollution through the lens of theoretical approaches that reflect on bodily margins and
orifices as potent symbolic points of human bodies, as well as on bodily fluids as substances that can threaten inside/outside, subject/object distinctions. An examination
of Hittite compositions from this theoretical perspective suggests that ritual patients
were able, through spitting, and spittle, to release evils characterized primarily by
being in between corporeality, social, and divine encounters, instead of freeing them
principally from physical afflictions. |
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