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Women in Mesopotamia
Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient • 38 (2) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 123-144
By: Stol, Marten.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article on women in Mesopotamian society spanning nearly three millennia and multiple cultural periods, the author covers such subjects as marriage, polygamy, divorce, adultery, widowhood, inheritance, and work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Gender status
- Classes
- Slavery
- Marriage
- Polygamy
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Sex and marital offenses
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Babylonians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- Linguist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3000–539 BC
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq, eastern Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- By M. Stol
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-144)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn 80008488
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Babylonia