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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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Leiden :
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.