| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 1108 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology |
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Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology
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| Contents |
Introduction ritual and religion in archaeological perspective / Timothy Insoll -- Part 1. Elements and Expression -- Monumentality / Chris Scarre -- Landscape / Randi Haaland, Gunnar Haaland -- Water / Terje Oestigaard -- Fire / Anders Kaliff -- Myth and folklore / Amy Gazin-Schwartz -- Cosmogony / Terje Oestigaard -- Death / Timothy Taylor -- Taboo / Nicky Milner -- The many dimensions of ritual / Marc Verhoeven -- Personhood and the body / Chris Fowler -- Sacrifice / Timothy Insoll -- Ideology / Randall H. McGuire, Reinhard Bernbeck -- Feasting and fasting / Michael Dietler -- Gender and religion in archaeology / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Archaeologies of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis -- Syncretism and religious fusion / Timothy Clack -- Technology / Olivier Gosselain -- Rites of passage / Paul Garwood -- The archaeology of contemporary conflict / Zoe Crossland -- Rock art, religion, and ritual / David S. Whitley -- Part 2. Prehistoric European Ritual and Religion -- Religion and ritual in the lower and middle palaeolithic / Paul Pettitt -- Religion and ritual in the upper palaeolithic / Paul G. Bahn -- The mesolithic / Chantal Conneller -- Ritual and religion in the neolithic / Julian Thomas -- Fire, earth, water an elemental cosmography of the European Bronze Age / Joanna Brück -- The Iron Age / Jody Joy -- Part 3. Religion and Ritual in World Prehistory -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Timothy Insoll -- The prehistory of religion in China / Lukas Nickel -- The archaeology of religion and ritual in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago / Simon Kaner -- Ritual and religion in South-East Asia / Charles F. W. Higham -- Historicizing cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea / Bruno David -- Pacific and New Zealand / Paul Rainbird -- Walking upside-down and backwards art and religion in the ancient Caribbean / Peter G. Roe -- Recognizing religion in Mesoamerican archaeology Maya / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Aztecs / Michael E. Smith -- Inca / Kevin Lane -- Moche religion / Jeffrey Quilter -- North America Pueblos / Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- North America eastern woodlands / Vernon James Knight -- The religious system of the northwest coast of North America / Roy L. Carlson -- Ritual and archaeological visibility in the far northeast of North America / Brian S. Robinson -- Part 4. Religion and Cult of the Old World -- Prehistoric religions in the Aegean / Colin Renfrew -- Ancient Greece / Julia Kindt -- Etruscan ritual and religion / Tom Rasmussen -- Egypt / Anna Stevens -- Rome imperial and local religions / Richard Hingley -- Maltese prehistoric religion / Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart -- Mesopotamia / Michael J. Seymour -- Retrieving the supernatural ritual and religion in the prehistoric Levant / Marc Verhoeven -- Iran / Daniel T. Potts -- Anatolia / Karina Croucher -- Old Norse and Germanic religion / Anders Andrén -- Pre-Christian practices in the Anglo-Saxon world / Martin Welch -- The archaeology of Baltic religions / Tõnno Jonuks -- Part 5. Archaeology of World Religions -- The archaeology of ritual and religion in ancient Israel and the Levant, and the origins of Judaism / Aaron A. Burke -- The archaeology of Judaism from the Persian period to the sixth century ad / James F. Strange -- Archaeology of Hinduism / Namita Sugandhi, Kathleen Morrison -- Buddhism / Robin Coningham -- Christianity / Sam Turner -- Islam / Andrew Petersen -- Part 6. Archaeology of Indigenous and New Religions -- Shamanism / Neil Price -- Animism and totemism / Timothy Insoll -- Neo-shamanism pagan and 'neo-shamanic' interactions with archaeology / Jenny Blain -- Druidism and neo-paganism / Aleks Pluskowski -- Ancestor cults / Timothy Insoll -- Divine kings / Pierre de Maret |
| Summary |
"The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Paeleolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology and religion.
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Religion -- History.
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Rites and ceremonies -- History
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Religion, Prehistoric.
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Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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religious history.
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excavation (process)
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Archaeology and religion
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Religion
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Religion, Prehistoric
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Rites and ceremonies
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Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric
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Religion.
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Religion
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Ritual
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Archäologie.
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Religion.
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Kult.
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Ritus.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Insoll, Timothy, editor
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| LC no. |
2010940329 |
| ISBN |
9780191617386 |
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0191617385 |
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9780191743450 |
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0191743453 |
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