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Ritual Failure : Archaeological Perspectives /

'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Koutrafouri, Vasiliki G., Sanders, Jeff (Archaeologist)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff Sanders
  • Foreword : Introductory thoughts on the theme of "Ritual failure. Archaeological perspectives" / Timothy Insoll
  • The passage of matter : Transformations of objects and ritual meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East / Marc Verhoeven
  • The sky almost never falls on your head : why ritual rarely fails / Jeff Sanders
  • Ritual failure in the business records of Mesopotamian temples / Michael Kozuh
  • Ritual failure and the temple collapse of prehistoric Malta / Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart
  • From wells to pillars, and from pillars to ...? : Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of Cyprus / Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri
  • When ancestors become Gods : The transformation of Cypriote ritual and religion in the Late Bronze Age / David Collard
  • Colonial entanglements and cultic heterogeneity on Rome's Germanic frontier / Karim Mata
  • The dead acrobat : Managing risk and Minoan iconography / Evangelos Kyriakidis
  • Discussion: Defining moments / Richard Bradley.