@inbook{9bc136fcb98f4f62b546dbac007a6433,
title = "Fauna in Ancient Sumerian Proverbs: The Role Animals Played in Shaping Southern Mesopotamian Social Norms and Conventions",
abstract = "This chapter explores faunal representation in the third-millennium collections of Sumerian proverbs preserved in southern Mesopotamia.Popular sayings, these were designed to teach a person how to succeed in life and act morally and ethically.Animals served this purpose by functioning as models of imitation/warning and/or metaphors for diverse types of human beings.Both domesticated creatures living in human society and wild beasts wandering freely in their nature habitat appear in the proverbs.All the sayings embody the Sumerians{\textquoteright} extensive faunal knowledge and the great significance they attached to social norms and ethical conduct.",
author = "Idan Breier",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_2",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "19--49",
booktitle = "Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}