Emanuel Pfoh and Lorenzo Verderame: Introduction

Emanuel Pfoh: Anthropology in Assyriology: An Historiographical Overview from the Periphery

Lorenzo Verderame: The Sumerian Kinship System: Dialoguing with Anthropology

Agnès Garcia-Ventura: The Underlying Myth of Matriarchy: Some Reflections on the Entanglements between Anthropology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies

Omar N’Shea: I am a Lion, I am a King: Metaphor, Mimesis, and Masculinity in the State Arts of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–613 BCE)

Gioele Zisa: Towards an Anthropology and Ethnopsychiatry of Mesopotamian Medicine: A Case Study on Therapies for the Loss of Sexual Desire

Luciana Urbano: The Conformation Rituals of Political Alliances in the Old Babylonian Sources from Mari: A New Interpretation from the Anthropology of the Body