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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
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SUMMARY:Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="dea8a21f-c3e2-418e-b05d-97232caabfb2" alt="Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia on YouTube" data-view-mode="hwp_medium"></drupal-media></p><p>	<strong><span><span><span style="color:black">Ulrike Steinert, Research Associate, Babylonian Medicine, Department of History and Cultural Studies, </span></span></span>Freie Universität Berlin</strong></p><p>	<span><span><span style="color:black">The human body has not changed significantly during recorded history–we share sensory faculties, metabolism, sexuality, aging, and mortality with even our distant ancestors. </span></span></span><!--break-->​​​​​​​<span><span><span style="color:black">Concepts of body and self, on the other hand, evolve as cultural and historical constructs that vary widely between time and place. Drawing upon ancient texts and visual representations, Ulrike Steinert will discuss how categories of “body” and “mind” were construed in Mesopotamia more than three thousand years ago and will consider social aspects of the body at the intersection of cultural norms, ideals, and gender.</span></span></span></p><p>	Lecture. Free and open to the public</p><p>	Free parking is available at the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/52%20Oxford%20St,%20Harvard%20University,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138/@42.3801645,-71.1153057,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e37740a3c56959:0xe17bf20973449411">52 Oxford Street Garage</a>.</p><p>	<span style="text-autospace:none"><span><span>Presented in collaboration with the </span></span></span><a data-url="https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu" href="https://nelc.fas.harvard.edu" title="">Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University</a></p>
LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
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