University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients - Assyriologie
Hauptstr. 126
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

couto-ferreira@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

About 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 also working on the monograph A historical approach to healing in Mesopotamia. The transmission of cuneiform medical knowledge in the Ancient Near East.

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, and lexicography of the body in Sumerian and Akkadian. 

Profile at academia.edu: http://heidelberg.academia.edu/MEricaCoutoFerreira

Projects

• C1 Medical Systems

Curriculum vitae

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.

Selected publications

Monographs

(In preparation) A historical approach to healing in Mesopotamia. The transmission of cuneiform medical knowledge in the Ancient Near East.

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

Book chapters

(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) "The circulation of medical practitioners in the Ancient Near East. The Mesopotamian Perspective". Actas de MediterréneoS. Jornadas internacionales de jóvenes investigadores en lenguas y culturas del Mediterráneo y Próximo Oriente, Madrid, 13-15 diciembre 2010. CSIC.

(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.

2008 “Gilgameš in Giappone: Riferimenti ai miti sumero-accadici nell’anime”. Convegno Orientalisti: “Traduzioni di tradizioni, tradizioni di traduzioni”, 19-21 aprile 2007, Pavía.

Articles

(In preparation) In the womb: Embryological Concepts in Mesopotamian Incantations and Literary Texts.

(In preparation) Review of Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson (eds.) (2011), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

(In preparation) Perfumería y cosmética en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo. Publicaciones y perspectivas (review-article). Historiae 9.

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 Andersen, B. R. (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.