Ritual and archaic states

• Titel: Ritual and archaic states
• Mitwirkende: Murphy, Joanne M. A. [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy
• Verlagsort: Gainesville ; Tallahassee ; Tampa ; Boca Raton ; Pensacola ; Orlando ; Miami ; Jacksonville ; Ft. Myers ; Sarasota
• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: xvii, 244 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-6278-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Archaikum / (s)Altertum / (s)Ritual
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 85852984X

Abstract

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

Abstract

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