The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

 
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ISBN13:9780198858058
ISBN10:0198858051
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:1136 pages
Size:248x173x52 mm
Weight:2060 g
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective
I. Elements and Expression
Monumentality
Landscape
Water
Fire
Myth and Folklore
Cosmogony
Death
Taboo
The Many Dimensions of Ritual
Personhood and the Body
Sacrifice
Ideology
Feasting and Fasting
Gender and Religion in Archaeology
Archaeologies of the Senses
Syncretism and Religious Fusion
Technology
Rites of Passage
The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict
Rock Art, Religion and Ritual
II. Prehistoric European Ritual and Religion
Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic
Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic
The Mesolithic
Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic
Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age
The Iron Age
III. Religion and Ritual in World Prehistory
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Prehistory of Religion in China
The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago
Ritual and Religion in Southeast Asia
Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea
Pacific and New Zealand
Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean
Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya
Aztecs
Inca
Moche Religion
North America: Pueblos
North America: Eastern Woodlands
The North American Northwest Coast Religious System: Coastal Northwest
Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America
IV. Religion and Cult of the Old World
Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean
Ancient Greece
Etruscan Ritual and Religion
Egypt
Rome: Imperial and Local Religions
Maltese Prehistoric Religion
Mesopotamia
Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant
Iran
Anatolia
Old Norse and Germanic Religion
Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World
The Archaeology of Baltic Religions
V. Archaeology of World Religions
The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism
The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD
Archaeology of Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
VI. Archaeology of Indigenous and New Religions
Shamanism
Animism and Totemism
Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology
Druidism and Neo-Paganism
Ancestor Cults
Divine Kings