What's (in) Your Bowl?: Affordances of Incantation Bowls and their Use in Household Medicine

This paper investigates the much-discussed Babylonian incantation bowls inspired by approaches from thing theory, such as the concept of affordance, and from cognitive studies, such as the distributed cognition hypothesis. For once, the material aspects of the bowl amulets and how people may have pe...

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Main Author: Amsler, Monika ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2023
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-109
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Medicine / Conjuration / Amulet / Babylon
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
HD Early Judaism
HH Archaeology
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