The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

NOTE EDITORE

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

SOMMARIO

1 - Monumentality2 - Landscape3 - Water4 - Fire5 - Myth and Folklore6 - Cosmogony7 - Death8 - Taboo9 - The Many Dimensions of Ritual10 - Personhood and the Body11 - Sacrifice12 - Ideology13 - Feasting and Fasting14 - Gender and Religion in Archaeology15 - Archaeologies of the Senses16 - Syncretism and Religious Fusion17 - Technology18 - Rites of Passage19 - The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict20 - Rock Art, Religion and Ritual21 - Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic22 - Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic23 - The Mesolithic24 - Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic25 - Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age26 - The Iron Age27 - Sub-Saharan Africa28 - The Prehistory of Religion in China29 - The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago30 - Ritual and Religion in Southeast Asia31 - Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea32 - Pacific and New Zealand33 - Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean34 - Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya35 - Aztecs36 - Inca37 - Moche Religion38 - North America: Pueblos39 - North America: Eastern Woodlands40 - The North American Northwest Coast Religious System: Coastal Northwest41 - Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America42 - Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean43 - Ancient Greece44 - Etruscan Ritual and Religion45 - Egypt46 - Rome: Imperial and Local Religions47 - Maltese Prehistoric Religion48 - Mesopotamia49 - Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant50 - Iran51 - Anatolia52 - Old Norse and Germanic Religion53 - Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World54 - The Archaeology of Baltic Religions55 - The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism56 - The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD57 - Archaeology of Hinduism58 - Buddhism59 - Christianity60 - Islam61 - Shamanism62 - Animism and Totemism63 - Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology64 - Druidism and Neo-Paganism65 - Ancestor Cults66 - Divine Kings

AUTORE

Timothy Insoll is Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge from 1995 until 1998, when he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester. After becoming a Reader in 2004 and being awarded a personal chair in 2005 he moved to the University of Exeter in 2016. He is the author or editor of 16 books, three special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews on a wide range of research topics across the discipline of archaeology, and has completed fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198858058
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 248 x 52.1 x 173 mm Ø 2060 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 1136