Ritual and Archaic States / edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Joanne M. A., 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual--History.

Ritual.

Political anthropology.

Civilization, Ancient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume compares archaic rituals across civilizations, exploring theoretical models and interpretations for a variety of cultures and ritual practices, focusing especially on the location, frequency, and role of ritual in each of these societies and their resulting archaeological signatures.

Contents:

Variation and change in archaic states: ritual as a mechanism of sociopolitical integration / Gary M. Feinman

The variety of ritual experience in premodern states / Richard Blanton

Same, same, but different: ritual in the archaic states of Pylos and Mycenae / Joanne M. A. Murphy

Rituals and ceremonies at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Dendra / Ann-Louise Schallin

Feasting and burials on the Peruvian central coast at the onset of the middle horizon / Giancarlo Marcone Flores

Religious ritual and Wari State expansion / Patrick Ryan Williams and Donna J. Nash

The role of ideology in emerging hierarchies at late archaic and early horizon sites along the central Coast of Peru / Jessica Joyce Christie and Matthew Piscitelli

The architecture of ritual and polity at Chaco Canyon / Stephen H. Lekson

Discussant / Alexei Vranich.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5170-3

0-8130-5588-1

OCLC:

952572421