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María Érica Couto-Ferreira, Dr.
Wissenschaftler
Position
- Postdoc in project C14 "Medical Systems in Transition: The Case of the Ancient Near East"
Kontaktinformationen
Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients - Assyriologie
Hauptstr. 126
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
Über María Érica Couto-Ferreira
Érica Couto-Ferreira is currently working in the project "Medical systems in transition: The case of the Ancient Near East". Focusing her research on the analysis of cuneiform sources, she is producing a database on published cuneiform texts on healing as well as other content and bibliographic databases and tools that may help researches in the task of studying ancient Mesopotamian medicine. She is currently finishing a monograph entitled A Historical Approach to Healing in Ancient Mesopotamia. She is also preparing a study on women's heathcare in cuneiform sources.
Érica Couto-Ferreira main research interests regard gynaecology and diseases of women in cuneiform texts; medical professions in antiquity; constitution and transmission of medical knowledge in the Ancient Near East; historiography and methodology in assyriological studies; and lexicography of the body in Sumerian and Akkadian.
Profile at academia.edu: http://heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira
Projekte
Lebenslauf
2009 PhD. Etnoanatomía y partonomía del cuerpo humano en sumerio y acadio. El léxico Ugu-mu. Advisor: Miquel Civil; tutor: Marina Picazo. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
2006 Curso de Aptitud Pedagógica-CAP (Pedagogical Proficiency Course), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Since 2005: Member of the editorial board of Historiae (Barcelona).
2005 MA Assyriological Studies. Universitat de Barcelona.
2005 DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies). University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Minor thesis: “Etiología de la enfermedad en Mesopotamia. Las causas sobrenaturales”.
2003 MA History of the Ancient Near East. University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
2001 MA Ancient History and History of the Middle Ages. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Monographs
(In preparation) A Historical Approach to Healing in Ancient Mesopotamia.
2009 Etnoanatomía y partonomía del cuerpo humano en sumerio y acadio. El léxico Ugu-mu (PhD). Advisor: Miquel Civil; tutor: Marina Picazo. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
http://heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira/Books
Edited books
(In preparation) With A. Andreeva and S. Töpfer. Pregnancy and Childbirth in Pre-Modern Societies. Dynamis, Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam.
Book chapters
2008 “Gilgameš in Giappone: Riferimenti ai miti sumero-accadici nell’anime”. In Benedetta Belluci et al. (ed), Traduzioni di tradizioni, tradizioni di traduzioni. Atti del quarto incontro «Orientalisti» (Pavia, 19-21 aprile 2007) 19-21 aprile 2007. Milano: Qu.A.S.A.R.; 2008, pp. 39-51.
2013 "The circulation of medical practitioners in the Ancient Near East. The Mesopotamian Perspective". In Sergio Carro Martín et al. (ed), Mediterráneos: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2013, pp. 401-416.
(Submitted and accepted) "The River, the Oven, the Garden: Female Body and Fertility in a Late Babylonian Ritual Text". Rivista degli Studi Orientali - Supplementa. Proceedings of the "Questioni di rito: Rituali come fonte di conoscenza delle religioni e delle concezioni del mondo nelle culture antiche / Eine Frage des Rituals: Rituale als Quelle für unsere Kenntnis der Religionen und Weltbilder in den Kulturen des Altertums (28-30 November 2011, Rome)" conference.
(Submitted) "Agency, Performance and Recitation as Textual Tradition in Mesopotamia. An Akkadian Text of the Late Babylonian Period to Make a Woman Conceive". In Magali de Haro Sanchez (ed), Écrire la magie dans l’Antiquité – Scrivere la magia nell’antichità. Proceedings of the International Workshop (Liège, October 13-15, 2011). Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège (PULG – Sciences Humaines).
(Submitted) "Shaping a genre. Innovation and tradition in 1st millennium B.C. cuneiform texts on diseases of women". In I. Andorlini, D. Leith and A. Maravela (ed.), The Texts of the Medical Profession in Antiquity: Genres and Purposes.
(Submitted) "Parteras, nodrizas y cuidadoras en Mesopotamia". In M. Picazo Gurina and A. Delgado Hervás (ed.), Los trabajos de las mujeres en el mundo antiguo.
Articles
(Submitted and accepted, with Agnes Garcia-Ventura) "Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies. A Historiographical Overview". Gender & History.
(In preparation) "Perfumería y cosmética en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo. Publicaciones y perspectivas" (review-article). Historiae.
2012. Review of Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson (eds.) (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.33.
2011. Review of A.M.G. Capomacchia (ed.) (2009), Animali tra mito e simbolo. Rivista di Studi Orientali, 83 (2010). Pp. 455-460.
2010. "Fuentes lapidarias cuneiformes. Recensión a A. Schuster-Brandis, Steine als Schutz- und Heilmittel". Historiae, 7. Pp. 97-105.
2010. "It Is the Same for a Man and a Woman: Melancholy and Lovesickness in Ancient Mesopotamia". Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei, 3. Pp. 21-39.
2010 "Etnoanatomía y partonomía del cuerpo humano en sumerio y acadio". Una introducción al léxico Ugu-mu. Butlletí IUHJVV, 10. Pp. 14-16.
2008 “Si una mujer tiene la cabeza grande: Fisionomía y carácter femenino en un texto asiriobabilónico”. Asclepio, 60(1). Pp. 19-36.
2007 “Conceptos de transmisión de la enfermedad en Mesopotamia: algunas reflexiones”. Historiae, 4. Pp. 1-23.
2007 “La salud de la materia. Últimas publicaciones en historia de la medicina del Próximo Oriente antiguo”. Historiae, 4. Pp. 133-143.
2006 Review of Rochberg, F. (2004): The Heavenly Writing. Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Historiae, 3. Pp. 132-133.
2006 Review of Scurlock, J. A. and B. R. Andersen (2005), Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Historiae, 3. Pp. 134-139.
2005 “Los espectros furiosos como causa de enfermedad en Mesopotamia”. Historiae, 2. Pp. 27-54.
