Material Affective Engagements: Examples from Ancient Mesopotamia
Aestimatio November 25, 2025 Ulrike Steinert, Giovanna Colombetti
Abstract: This article applies approaches from current emotion research on material affective scaffolds—objects made and used to enhance, and more generally transform, affective states—to the emerging field of study focusing on emotions in ancient Near Eastern societies. Its main goal is to extend the framework of 4E cognition—with its central notion that human cognition is embodied, embedded,...