Article Abstract
Melanesia is a far cry from Mesopotamia, but Marilyn Strathem's delineation of the partible person in the Pacific offers more than a mere heuristic device for understanding the meaning of certain images of Naram-Sin. It offers a way to bring indigenous Mesopotamian ontologies into dialogue with Western approaches to art, revealing in the process the complexity of the relationship both between a "deified" human being and the objects that are supposed to represent him, and of the relationship between ruler and ruled.
Publication Type
- Article
Book Name
Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art
ISSN/ISBN
978-1-61451-029-1