Ritual and archaic states /

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This volume compares archaic rituals across civilizations, exploring theoretical models and interpretations for a variety of cultures and ritual practices, focusing especially on the location, frequency, and role of ritual in each of these societies and their resulting archaeological signatures.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Murphy, Joanne M. A., 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Subjects:
Civilization, Ancient.
Political anthropology.
Ritual > History.
Civilisation ancienne.
Anthropologie politique.
Rituel > Histoire.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Ritual.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Variation and change in archaic states: ritual as a mechanism of sociopolitical integration / Gary M. Feinman
  • The variety of ritual experience in premodern states / Richard Blanton
  • Same, same, but different: ritual in the archaic states of Pylos and Mycenae / Joanne M.A. Murphy
  • Rituals and ceremonies at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Dendra / Ann-Louise Schallin
  • Feasting and burials on the Peruvian central coast at the onset of the middle horizon / Giancarlo Marcone Flores
  • Religious ritual and Wari State expansion / Patrick Ryan Williams and Donna J. Nash
  • The role of ideology in emerging hierarchies at late archaic and early horizon sites along the central Coast of Peru / Jessica Joyce Christie and Matthew Piscitelli
  • The architecture of ritual and polity at Chaco Canyon / Stephen H. Lekson
  • Discussant / Alexei Vranich.

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