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Sacred Killing : The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East / ed. by Glenn M. Schwarz, Anne Porter.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781575066769
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 203/.409394 23
LOC classification:
  • DS56 .S13 2012eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of the Near East -- List of Contributors -- Archaeology and Sacrifice -- On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India, with an Introduction by Anne Porter -- Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice: A Case Study at Çatalhöyük, Turkey -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur -- Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority -- Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing -- On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice -- Index of Authors
Summary: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of the Near East -- List of Contributors -- Archaeology and Sacrifice -- On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India, with an Introduction by Anne Porter -- Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice: A Case Study at Çatalhöyük, Turkey -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur -- Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority -- Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing -- On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice -- Index of Authors

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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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