CALL FOR PAPERS "Accounting and Bookkeeping as Social Practice in Cuneiform Cultures" (original) (raw)

Accounting and Bookkeeping as Social Practice in Cuneiform Cultures Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale 68 This session aims to bring together scholars from diverse areas of cuneiform studies to discuss new work on accounting and bookkeeping in cuneiform cultures. Specifically, we hope to reconsider not only the way that scribes kept their accounts, but also the social practices and uses of accounting. Following the insights of "new accounting theory" (for example, see Fear [esp. Appendix B], Giraudeau, and Urton), we intend to study accounting practices through a multidisciplinary prism, combining philology, economics, social history, and anthropology. We hope to initiate rich discussions and comparisons between periods (from the Early Dynastic to the Parthian), areas, and scientific approaches …