Tiene sentido estudiar historia antigua del cercano Oriente hoy?. Tres razones y algunas reflexiones
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En líneas generales, el estudio de la Historia
del Cercano Oriente Antiguo se
cuestiona bajo el pretexto de que no responde
a los intereses “nacionales”, esto
es, que tales saberes son fútiles, absurdos
o innecesarios por estar lejos tanto de la
historia latinoamericana como – y más
específicamente – de la realidad y las necesidades
del presente. Sin embargo, la
historia antigua de Próximo Oriente
puede volverse un campo de estudio e investigación
sumamente fértil y operativa
si se evita su delimitación a partir de ciertos
prejuicios historiográficos y antropológicos
aún vigentes en los medios académicos.
En este trabajo planteamos algunas consideraciones alrededor de la
relevancia de la enseñanza y la investigación
de la historia antigua del Cercano
Oriente como una suerte de “laboratorio”
desde el cual es posible pensar desde
una perspectiva histórica todo un conjunto
de diferencias socioculturales respecto
de los modos de experiencia social más afines a nuestra contemporaneidad
y reconocer la diversidad de formas en
que puede materializarse la experiencia
humana a lo largo de la historia.
In general terms, the study of Ancient Near East History is questioned under the pretext that it does not respond to ‘national’ interests, that is, such knowledge is futile, absurd or unnecessary because it is far from Latin American history as well as – and more specifically – of the reality and the needs of the present. However, Ancient Near East History can become an extremely fertile and operational field to study and research if we avoid its delimitation based on certain historiographic and anthropological prejudices that are still present in academic media. In this paper, we propose some considerations about the relevance of the study of Ancient Near East History as a kind of ‘laboratory’ from which it is possible to think a whole set of sociocultural characteristics different from our contemporaneity modes of social experience and to recognize the diversity of ways in which human experience can materialize throughout history.
In general terms, the study of Ancient Near East History is questioned under the pretext that it does not respond to ‘national’ interests, that is, such knowledge is futile, absurd or unnecessary because it is far from Latin American history as well as – and more specifically – of the reality and the needs of the present. However, Ancient Near East History can become an extremely fertile and operational field to study and research if we avoid its delimitation based on certain historiographic and anthropological prejudices that are still present in academic media. In this paper, we propose some considerations about the relevance of the study of Ancient Near East History as a kind of ‘laboratory’ from which it is possible to think a whole set of sociocultural characteristics different from our contemporaneity modes of social experience and to recognize the diversity of ways in which human experience can materialize throughout history.
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Zapata, Horacio Miguel Hernán, 2020. ¿Tiene sentido estudiar historia antigua del cercano Oriente hoy?. Tres razones y algunas reflexiones. Revista Brasileira de História. São Paulo: Associação Nacional de História, vol. 40, no. 84, p. 193-216. E-ISSN 1806-9347. DOI https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472020v40n84-09
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