Article ID: CBB000931874

“Si una mujer tiene la cabeza grande”: fisionomía y carácter femenino en un texto asiriobabilónico (2008)

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El cuerpo humano en Mesopotamia era entendido como objeto adivinatorio: un sistema de signos, portador de mensajes sobre el propio individuo, cuyo significado debía decodificarse mediante la observación y la interpretación. Tomando como fuente principal de mi trabajo la serie fisionómica Šumma sinništu qaqqada rabât (Si una mujer tiene la cabeza grande), analizo, por una parte, los mecanismos por los que se promueve una determinada visión de las mujeres en la adivinación fisionómica a partir de la lectura sexuada de su cuerpo. Por otra, los elementos que caracterizan esta imagen femenina, en base a dos grandes ejes: la imagen de la mujer ideal encarnada en el rol de madre; y los peligros que amenazan la vida de las mujeres en calidad de procreadoras. PALABRAS CLAVE: Mesopotamia, Cuerpo femenino, Adivinación, Fisionomía

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Authors & Contributors
Steele, John M.
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain
Devriese, Lisa
Raffaella De Vivo
Wee, John Zhu-En
Hughes, Jamie Hacker
Concepts
Astronomy
Physiognomy
Medicine
Science and art
Human anatomy
Cuneiform inscriptions
Time Periods
Ancient
Renaissance
Medieval
Prehistory
Early modern
Shang dynasty (China, ca. 1766-1027 B.C.)
Places
Mesopotamia
Middle and Near East
Assyria
Greece
Babylon (extinct city)
Sumer
Institutions
Cambridge University
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