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Ritual and archaic states
Ritual and archaic states frequently ignite complex debates about their defining characteristics and archaeological signatures. Offering fresh perspectives on both subjects, this volume unites the two streams of scholarship and explores the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in a...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville
: University Press of Florida
, 2017-2016
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062785.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Joanne M.A. Murphy |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection |
| Summary: | Ritual and archaic states frequently ignite complex debates about their defining characteristics and archaeological signatures. Offering fresh perspectives on both subjects, this volume unites the two streams of scholarship and explores the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in archaic states. It compares rituals across many different archaic polities and cultures, including Vijayanagara, Swahili Lamu, Venice, Asante, Aztec, Ming China, Oaxaca, Greece, Inca, Wari, and Chaco. 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 |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2016.. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9780813051703 |
