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" Investigation into the Impacts of Foreign Ruling Elites in Traditional State Societies: The Case of the Kassite State in Babylonia (Iraq) "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802978
Doc. No	:	TL48158
Call number	:	‭1666860963;‮ ‬3686923‬
Main Entry	:	Gardiner, David C.
Title & Author	:	Investigation into the Impacts of Foreign Ruling Elites in Traditional State Societies: The Case of the Kassite State in Babylonia (Iraq)
	:	\ Helen O. Malko
	:	Stone, Elizabeth C.; Bahrani, Zainab
College	:	State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2014
field of study	:	Anthropology
Page No	:	336
Note	:	Committee members: Hildebrand, Elisabeth; Zimansky, Paul
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-63925-4
Abstract	:	This thesis focuses on the study of foreign ruling minorities in traditional state societies. It investigates how the Kassites, as a foreign ethnic group, were able to control and maintain political power over the Babylonian majority for four centuries. In addition, it examines Kassite-Babylonian cultural interaction both on state and domestic levels as reflected in the material cultural and historical records. This study uses two contrasting ethnohistorical models of foreign ruling elites of the Arabs in Spain and the Mamluks in Egypt to evaluate the mechanisms employed by the Kassites to maintain power and the nature of their interaction with the Babylonian majority. Although the Kassites adopted Babylonian culture and traditions, they still maintained their language, names, deities, and social organization. Despite their small number and foreign background, the Kassites’ political and socioeconomic practices continued long after their supremacy ended, leaving a long term imprint on Babylonian culture and society.
Subject	:	Archaeology; Ancient history; Ethnic studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Ancient Near East;Babylonia;Ethnic minorities;Iraq;Kassites;Ruling elites
Added Entry	:	Stone, Elizabeth C.; Bahrani, Zainab
Added Entry	:	State University of New York at Stony Brook
	:	Anthropology