Nicola Laneri is Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES/Lorenzo de’ Medici (Florence). He taught Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Catania, the University of Chicago, the Middle Eastern Technical University of Ankara and the Oriental Institute of Naples. From 2003 until 2016, he has been the director of the Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project (southeastern Turkey). He has published more than 80 scientific articles in journals and books. Anna Perdibon is Assistant Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES. She is a researcher, writer and teacher in the fields of religion and anthropology.

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• Introduction: Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in ancient ReligionsAnna Perdibon and Nicola Laneri1. Before Nature: perspectives from new animist world-makingGraham Harvey2. Watercraft as Assemblage in the Western ArcticErica Hill3. Between Realms of Being: Signs of Liminality in Ancient Altai Stone MonumentsEsther Jacobson-Tepfer4. In Mantic and Hostile Lands: Surveillance and Mimesis by Divination in the Late Old Babylonian PeriodSeth Richardson5. Nymphs or trees? Some remarks on the “animistic” interpretation of Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, vv. 256-272.Doralice Fabiano6. The dawn of the Potnia. Reception and reinterpretation of an archetypal model in protohistoric peninsular ItalyValentino Nizzo7. Responsibilities, Obedience, and Righteousness: Other-Than-Human Creatures in the Hebrew BibleMari Joerstad

Nicola Laneri is Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES/Lorenzo de’ Medici (Florence). He taught Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Catania, the University of Chicago, the Middle Eastern Technical University of Ankara and the Oriental Institute of Naples. From 2003 until 2016, he has been the director of the Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project (southeastern Turkey). He has published more than 80 scientific articles in journals and books. Anna Perdibon is Assistant Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES. She is a researcher, writer and teacher in the fields of religion and anthropology.

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• Introduction: Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in ancient ReligionsAnna Perdibon and Nicola Laneri1. Before Nature: perspectives from new animist world-makingGraham Harvey2. Watercraft as Assemblage in the Western ArcticErica Hill3. Between Realms of Being: Signs of Liminality in Ancient Altai Stone MonumentsEsther Jacobson-Tepfer4. In Mantic and Hostile Lands: Surveillance and Mimesis by Divination in the Late Old Babylonian PeriodSeth Richardson5. Nymphs or trees? Some remarks on the “animistic” interpretation of Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, vv. 256-272.Doralice Fabiano6. The dawn of the Potnia. Reception and reinterpretation of an archetypal model in protohistoric peninsular ItalyValentino Nizzo7. Responsibilities, Obedience, and Righteousness: Other-Than-Human Creatures in the Hebrew BibleMari Joerstad

Nicola Laneri is Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES/Lorenzo de’ Medici (Florence). He taught Archaeology of the Ancient Near East at the University of Catania, the University of Chicago, the Middle Eastern Technical University of Ankara and the Oriental Institute of Naples. From 2003 until 2016, he has been the director of the Hirbemerdon Tepe Archaeological Project (southeastern Turkey). He has published more than 80 scientific articles in journals and books. Anna Perdibon is Assistant Director of the School of Religious Studies at CAMNES. She is a researcher, writer and teacher in the fields of religion and anthropology.

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• Introduction: Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in ancient ReligionsAnna Perdibon and Nicola Laneri1. Before Nature: perspectives from new animist world-makingGraham Harvey2. Watercraft as Assemblage in the Western ArcticErica Hill3. Between Realms of Being: Signs of Liminality in Ancient Altai Stone MonumentsEsther Jacobson-Tepfer4. In Mantic and Hostile Lands: Surveillance and Mimesis by Divination in the Late Old Babylonian PeriodSeth Richardson5. Nymphs or trees? Some remarks on the “animistic” interpretation of Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, vv. 256-272.Doralice Fabiano6. The dawn of the Potnia. Reception and reinterpretation of an archetypal model in protohistoric peninsular ItalyValentino Nizzo7. Responsibilities, Obedience, and Righteousness: Other-Than-Human Creatures in the Hebrew BibleMari Joerstad