Divine consumption : sacrifice, alliance building, and making ancestors in West Africa /

"Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, deve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dueppen, Stephen A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2022]
Colección:Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 48.
Temas:
Sacrifice > Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site.
Ritual > Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site.
Ancestor worship > Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site.
Animal remains (Archaeology) > Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site.
Domestic animals > Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site.
Iron age > Africa, West.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Burkina Faso > Mohoun.
HISTORY / Africa / West
Ancestor worship
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Antiquities
Domestic animals
Excavations (Archaeology)
Iron age
Ritual
Sacrifice
Kirikongo Site (Burkina Faso)
Mohoun (Burkina Faso) > Antiquities.
Burkina Faso > Kirikongo Site
West Africa
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Archaeology and sacrifice in central West Africa
  • Kirikongo in historical and social context
  • Archaeology of animals in West Africa
  • The animals of Kirikongo
  • Depositional contexts and relational associations
  • Divine consumption : feasts, sacrifice, and societal transformation
  • Emplacing ancestors : enabling co-presence through material sacrifice and rituals of attachment/detachment
  • Sacrificing animals, objects, and houses : toward an archaeology of attachment and detachment.

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