Movilidad y asentamiento en el Cercano Oriente antiguo: : introducción y problemas abiertos

Alejandro Mizzoni

doi:10.35305/cl.vi23.148

Authors

Alejandro Mizzoni Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/cl.vi23.148

Keywords:

Mobility, Settlement, Pastoralism, Urbanism, Spatiality

Abstract

The question of settlement and mobility has been a recurring focus in the study of the so-called ancient Near East. From an urban perspective, ancient sources present a stereotypical, and mostly negative, view of mobile pastoralists, and periods of urban retreat and crisis have often been thought of as moments of rise of mobile groups. However, if –as it has been argued–, shepherds could live in cities, or even cities could constitute settlements of pastoralists, the distinction between settled and mobile settings seems to be blurred. The present volume proposes to think the dynamic interrelations between these aspects of mobility and settlement. In this sense, mobility was not restricted to certain modes of subsistence or habitation (such as mobile pastoralism), but the circulation of people, animals, objects and ideas ran across power relations, religious practices, exchange and different spatialities. The contributions gathered here address different aspects of these interrelations and problems in specific contexts.

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