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The structure of the Near Eastern society before the middle of the 2nd millennium BC
Oikumene • 3 • Published In 1982 • Pages: 7-100
By: D'iákonov, Igor' Mikhailovich.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a complex and dense article based on Marxist economic theory. Diakonoff bases most of his analysis on documents from the 19th through the 16th centuries B.C. (29th through 26th centuries B.P.). His goal is to characterize the the structure of Near East societies from the 3rd through the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. (5th through the middle of the 4th millennium B.P.), mostly as it relates to their economies. Some of the things Diakonoff discusses include that the king was not the proprietor of all the land in the state as he had to buy land from his subjects. Substantial communal holdings as well as large private estates existed alongside the lands administerd by the temples in the Early Dynastic Period. Diakonoff discusses Mesopotamia and the Middle East from around 3000 B.C. up through 1500 B.C. (5000 B.P. to 3500 B.P.). However, only material that pertains to the Early Dynastic Period was indexed for Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) codes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Wages and salaries
- Labor relations
- Classes
- Slavery
- Household
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Citizenship
- Congregations
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 5th millenium BP or 5000 BP-4000 BP (3rd millennium B.C. or 3000 B.C.-2000 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mesopotamia; Iran and Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- I. M. Diakonoff
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77647530
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iraq--Civilization--To 634