Insoll, Timothy [Hrsg.]:
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion / ed. by Timothy Insoll. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - XXVI, 1108 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-0-19-923244-4
US$ 150,00
DDC: 930.1
Beschreibung
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 Handbookcovers a global span - Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas - and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) 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. [Verlagsinformation]
Inhalt
List of Figures. xi
List of Tables. xxi
List of Contributors. xxiii
Timothy Insoll:
Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective. 1
PART I. ELEMENTS AND EXPRESSION
1. Chris Scarre:
Monumentality. 9
2. Randi Haaland and Gunnar Haaland:
Landscape. 24
3. Terje Oestigard:
Water. 38
4. Anders Kaliff:
Fire. 51
5. Amy Gazin-Schwartz:
Myth and Folklore. 63
6. Terje Oestigard:
Cosmogony. 76
8. Nicky Milner:
Taboo. 105
9. Marc Verhoeven:
The Many Dimensions of Ritual. 115
10. Chris Fowler:
Personhood and the Body. 133
11. Timothy Insoll:
Sacrifice. 151
12. Randall McGuire and Reinhard Bernbeck:
Ideology. 166
13. Michael Dietler:
Feasting and Fasting. 179
14. Sarah Milledge Nelson:
Gender and Religion in Archaeology. 195
15. Yannis Hamilakis:
Archaeologies of the Senses. 208
16. Timothy Clack:
Syncretism and Religious Fusion. 226
17. Olivier P. Gosselain:
Technology. 243
18. Paul Garwood:
Rites of Passage. 261
19. Zoe Crossland:
The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict. 285
20. David S. Whitley:
Rock Art, Religion and Ritual. 307
PART II. PREHISTORIC EUROPEAN RITUAL AND RELIGION
21. Paul Pettitt:
Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. 329
22. Paul Bahn:
Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic. 344
23. Chantal Conneller:
The Mesolithic. 358
24. Julian Thomas:
Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic. 371
25. Joanna Bruck:
Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age. 387
26. Jody Joy:
The Iron Age. 405
PART III. RELIGION AND RITUAL IN WORLD PREHISTORY
27. Timothy Insoll:
Sub-Saharan Africa. 425
28. Lukas Nickel:
The Prehistory of Religion in China. 442
29. Simon Kaner:
The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago. 457
30. Charles Higham:
Ritual and Religion in South-east Asia. 470
31. Bruno David:
Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea. 482
32. Paul Rainbird:
Pacific and New Zealand. 505
33. Peter Roe:
Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean. 519
34. Rosemary Joyce:
Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya. 541
35. Michael E. Smith:
Aztecs. 556
36. Kevin Lane:
Inca. 571
37. Jeffrey Quilter:
Moche Religion. 585
38. Kelley Hays-Gilpin:
North America: Pueblos. 600
39. James Vernon Knight:
North America: Eastern Woodlands. 623
40. Roy L. Carlson:
The Religious System of the Northwest Coast of North America. 639
41. Brian S. Robinson:
Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America. 656
IV. RELIGION AND CULT OF THE OLD WORLD
42. Colin Renfrew:
Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean. 681
43. Julia Kindt:
Ancient Greece. 696
44. Tom Rasmussen:
Etruscan Ritual and Religion. 710
45. Anna Stevens:
Egypt. 722
46. Richard Hingley:
Rome: Imperial and Local Religions. 745
47. Caroline Malone and Simon Stoddart:
Maltese Prehistoric Religion. 758
48. Michael J. Seymour:
Mesopotamia. 775
49. Marc Verhoeven:
Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant. 795
50. Daniel Potts:
Iran. 811
51. Karina Croucher:
Anatolia. 826
52. Anders Andren:
Old Norse and Germanic Religion. 846
53. Martin Welch:
Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World. 863
54. Tonno Jonuks:
The Archaeology of Baltic Religions. 877
V. ARCHAEOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS
55. Aaron A. Burke:
The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism. 895
56. James F. Strange:
The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD. 908
57. Namita Sugandhi and Kathleen Morrison:
Archaeology of Hinduism. 921
58. Robin Coningham:
Buddhism. 934
59. Sam Turner:
Christianity. 948
60. Andrew Petersen:
Islam. 967
VI. ARCHAEOLOGY OF INDIGENOUS AND NEW RELIGIONS
61. Neil Price:
Shamanism. 983
62. Timothy Insoll:
Animism and Totemism. 1004
63. Jenny Blain:
Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology. 1017
64. Aleks Pluskowski:
Druidism and Neo-Paganism. 1032
65. Timothy Insoll:
Ancestor Cults. 1043
66. Pierre de Maret:
Divine Kings. 1059
Index. 1069
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