Ritual and Archaic States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual and Archaic States write by Murphy, Joanne M. This book was released on 2016-08-24. Ritual and Archaic States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While ritual and archaic states have both been prominent topics in recent archaeological studies, this is the first volume to combine both subjects by exploring the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in archaic states. It compares archaic rituals across many different cultures--Vijayanagara, Swahili Lamu, Venice, Asante, Aztec, Ming China, Oaxaca, Greece, Inca, Wari, and Chaco. The contributors posit that the nature of rituals, the level of investment in rituals, and their sociopolitical significance can vary greatly from state to state, even among societies with similar levels of social complexity, population, and spatial distribution. Highlighting the importance of ritual as an inherent part of a cultural narrative, and demonstrating how the study of ritual enables a better understanding of diverse social groups, this volume shows how the location, frequency, and role of ritual differed significantly across archaic states.
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States write by Joanne M.A. Murphy. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state’s ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a culture-forming dynamic affected decline, collapse, and regeneration of the state. Chapters examine ritual in collapsing and regenerating archaic states from diverse locations, time periods, and societies including Crete, Mycenean and Byzantine Greece, Mesopotamia, India, Africa, Mexico, and Peru. Underscoring similarities in a variety of archaic states in the role of ritual during periods of threat, collapse, and transformation, the volume shows how ritual can be used as a stabilizing or divisive force or a connecting medium between the present to the past in an empowering way. It also highlights the diversity of ritual roles and location in similar situations and illustrates how states in close proximity and sharing many cultural similarities can respond differently through ritual to stress and contrast the different response in rural and urban settings. Through detailed, cultural specific studies, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the diverse roles of ritual in the decline, collapse, and regeneration of societies and will be important for all archaeologists involved in the important notions of state "collapse" and "regeneration".
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America write by Cheryl Claassen. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the edge of the Great Plains, Newfoundland, and southern Florida. This period and region share specific beliefs and practices such as human sacrifice, dirt mound burial, and oyster shell middens. This interpretive guide serves as a platform for new interpretations and theories on this period. For example, Claassen connects rituals to topographic features and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a major stimulus to Archaic beliefs. She also expands the interpretation of existing data previously understood in economic or environmental terms to include how this same data may also reveal spiritual and symbolic practices. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, bringing ritual acts into focus as drivers of social transformation and ethnogenesis.
Archaic States
Archaic States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaic States write by Gary M. Feinman. This book was released on 1998. Archaic States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, the authors highlight the diversity and instability of ancient states and how widely they have varied through time and across space. Archaic States presents new comparative studies of early states in the Old and New Worlds, including the Near East, India and Pakistan, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. In the process, it helps to define key avenues for research and discussion in the decades ahead.
Beyond the Polis
Beyond the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Polis write by Irene S. Lemos. This book was released on 2019. Beyond the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
