Sacred darkness : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves /

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In this book, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice. Covering the ritual use of caves in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moyes, Holley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2013]
Temas:
Sacred space.
Caves > Religious aspects.
Caves > Cross-cultural studies.
Ritual.
Anthropology of religion.
Lieux sacrés.
Rituel.
Anthropologie religieuse.
anthropology of religion.
RELIGION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Anthropology of religion
Caves
Caves > Religious aspects
Ritual
Sacred space
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ritual cave use in European Paleolithic caves / Jean Clottes
  • Constructed caves : transformations of the underworld in prehistoric southeast Italy / Robin Skeates
  • Caves of the living, caves of the dead : experiences above and below ground in prehistoric Malta / Simon K.F. Stoddart and Caroline A.T. Malone
  • Landscapes of ritual, identity, and memory : reconsidering Neolithic and Bronze Age cave use in Crete, Greece / Peter Tomkins
  • Caves and the funerary landscape of prehistoric Britain / Andrew T. Chamberlain
  • The subterranean landscape of the southern Levant during the Chalcolithic period / Yorke M. Rowan and David Ilan
  • The chamber of secrets : grottoes, caves, and the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion / Stuart Tyson Smith
  • Caves as sacred spaces on the Tibetan Plateau / Mark Aldenderfer
  • Differential Australian cave and rockshelter use during the Pleistocene and Holocene / Paul S.C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Matthew Kelleher, and Dave Pross
  • Caves as sacred space in Mesoamerica / Holley Moyes and James E. Brady
  • Footsteps in the dark zone : ritual cave use in Southwest prehistory / Scott Nicolay
  • Forty years' pursuit of human prehistory in the world underground / Patty Jo Watson
  • A new overview of prehistoric cave art in the Southeast / Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, and Joseph Douglas
  • Reevaluating cave records : the case for ritual caves in the eastern United States / Cheryl Claassen
  • Ceremonial use of caves and rockshelters in Ohio / Olaf H. Prufer and Keith M. Prufer
  • The ritual use of caves and rockshelters in Ozark prehistory / George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, and Jami J. Lockhart
  • The prehistoric funerary archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) / Graeme Barker and Lindsay Lloyd-Smith
  • Recognizing ritual in the dark : Nakovana Cave and the end of the Adriatic Iron Age / Timothy Kaiser and Stašo Forenbaher
  • Sacred spaces, sacred species : zooarchaeological perspectives on ritual uses of caves / Joanna E.P. Appleby and Preston T. Miracle
  • Ritual cave use in the Bahamas / Robert S. Carr, William C. Schaffer, Jeff B. Ransom, and Michael P. Pateman
  • Caves in Ireland : archaeology, myth, and folklore / Patrick McCafferty
  • Caves in black and white : the case of Zimbabwe / Terence Ranger
  • Where the wild things are : an exploration of sacrality, danger, and violence in confined spaces / Sandra Pannell and Sue O'Connor
  • Ritual uses of caves in West Malaysia / Joseph J. Hobbs
  • A quantitative literature survey regarding the uses and perceptions of caves among nine Indigenous Andean societies / Nathan Craig
  • Caves and related sites in the Great Plains of North America / Donald J. Blakeslee
  • Civilizing the cave man : diachronic and cross-cultural perspectives on cave ritual / Andrea Stone
  • Caves and spatial constraint : the prehistoric implications / Ezra B.W. Zubrow
  • Why dark zones are sacred : turning to behavioral and cognitive science for answers / Daniel R. Montello and Holley Moyes.

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