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Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

An Anthropology of Science
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  • Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity on Hardback by Francesca Rochberg
  • Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity on Hardback by Francesca Rochberg
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Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a standard by which to understand other orderings of reality, whether from ethnographical or historical sources. Because premodern and non-western sources attest to a plurality of sciences practiced in accordance with different ways of worldmaking from that of the modern West, their study belongs to the history of science, the philosophy of science, and the sociology of science, as well as the anthropology of science. In Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity, Francesca Rochberg extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia. Exploring how Babylonian science has been understood, she proposes a new direction for scholarship by recognizing the world of ancient science, not as a less developed form of modern science, but as legitimate and real in its own right.

Author Biography:

Francesca Rochberg is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. A John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow and John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2008. Rochberg is the author of The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (2008) and Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science (2022).
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October 31st, 2024
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  • General (US: Trade)
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Pages
350
ISBN-13
9781009522335
Product ID
38748048

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