Archaeological imaginations of religion / edited by Thomas Meier and Petra Tillessen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meier, Thomas, 1966- editor.

Tillessen, Petra, editor.

European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting 2008 : Valletta, Malta)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeolingua. Series minor ; 31.

Archaeolingua. Series minor, 1216-6847 ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and religion--Congresses.

Archaeology and religion.

Religion, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Religion, Prehistoric.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

403 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portrait, plan ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : ARCHAEOLINGUA ALAPÍTVÁNY, 2014.

Contents:

Archaeological imaginations of religion : an introduction from an Anglo-German perspective / Thomas Meier with Petra Tillessen

Sacred worlds or sacred cows? Can we paramaterize past rituals? / John Bintliff

Imagining animals in prehistoric religions / Erica Hill

Animism, ancestors and adjusted styles of communication : hidden art in Irish passage tombs / Robert J. Wallis

Style over content / Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Dialogues with the dead. Imagining mesolithic mortuary rituals / Liv Nilsson Stutz

Conceptualization of space through folklore. On the mythical and ritual significance of community limits / Katja Hrobat Virloget

The concept of liminality and Sámi sacred landscapes / Tiina Äikäs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Selected papers from the 14th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Valletta, Malta, September 2008.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789639911246

9639911240

OCLC:

883651563

Publisher Number:

99960165117