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The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology / ed. by Pam J. Crabtree, Kathleen Ryan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (112 p.) : 37 illusContent type:
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  • 9781949057003
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 23
LOC classification:
  • GR705 .S96 1995
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Animals Good to Think: Bronze Age Scandinavia and Ohio Hopewell -- The Symbolic Role of Animals in Anglo-Saxon England: Evidence from Burials and Cremations -- BEAR, ELK, AND FISH SYMBOLISM IN FINNISH CONTEXTS -- Bear, Elk, and Fish Symbolism in Finnish Contexts -- WHY CHICKENS? THE CENTRALITY OF THE DOMESTIC FOWL IN WEST AFRICAN RITUAL AND MAGIC -- BEDOUIN ANIMAL SACRIFICE PRACTICES: CASE STUDY IN ISRAEL -- DINNER IN BUQATA: THE SYMBOLIC NATURE OF FOOD ANIMALS AND MEAL SHARING IN A DRUZE VILLAGE -- PORK ON THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN: NUTRITION OR SYMBOL? -- The Spanish Bullfight: Some Historical Aspects, Traditional Interpretations, and Comments of Archaeozoological Interest for the Study of Ritual Slaughter
Summary: The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidence—including archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric data—in the reconstruction of animal symbolism.MASCA Vol. 12
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Animals Good to Think: Bronze Age Scandinavia and Ohio Hopewell -- The Symbolic Role of Animals in Anglo-Saxon England: Evidence from Burials and Cremations -- BEAR, ELK, AND FISH SYMBOLISM IN FINNISH CONTEXTS -- Bear, Elk, and Fish Symbolism in Finnish Contexts -- WHY CHICKENS? THE CENTRALITY OF THE DOMESTIC FOWL IN WEST AFRICAN RITUAL AND MAGIC -- BEDOUIN ANIMAL SACRIFICE PRACTICES: CASE STUDY IN ISRAEL -- DINNER IN BUQATA: THE SYMBOLIC NATURE OF FOOD ANIMALS AND MEAL SHARING IN A DRUZE VILLAGE -- PORK ON THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN: NUTRITION OR SYMBOL? -- The Spanish Bullfight: Some Historical Aspects, Traditional Interpretations, and Comments of Archaeozoological Interest for the Study of Ritual Slaughter

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The papers in this volume represent a range of approaches to the study of the symbolic roles of animals in human cultures. The theme that unites these papers is their use of a variety of different kinds of evidence—including archaeological, faunal, historical, ethnographic, artistic, and folkloric data—in the reconstruction of animal symbolism.MASCA Vol. 12

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