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Barbe et barbus: Symboliques, rites et pratiques du port de la barbe dans le Proche-Orient ancien et moderne

Barbe et barbus: Symboliques, rites et pratiques du port de la barbe dans le Proche-Orient ancien et moderne

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Series: Etudes Genevoises Sur L'Antiquité, Book 5

General Art

ISBN10: 303433611X
ISBN13: 9783034336116
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Apr 10 2019
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.42 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: French

Ranging from Sumer to ISIS, this collection presents an historic and anthropological approach to the beard in Middle Eastern religious traditions. The twelve contributions, along with a general introduction, cover the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Hittites), Judaism, and medieval to contemporary Islam. Since Antiquity the beard has been a symbol of masculine power, linked directly to ideologies of the male body. Whether the wearing of a beard is compulsory or prohibited, encouraged or mocked, it is a fundamental marker of identity and ideology, particularly in the Islamic world. The essays in Barbe et barbus are an elegant demonstration of the complexities inherent in the pilosity of the masculine visage.

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