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| Author | : Steven M. Friedson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226265064 |
Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality—in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson’s careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.
| Author | : Vera Tiesler |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2007-02-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0387488715 |
This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
| Author | : Henry Scammell |
| Publisher | : Harpercollins |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Murder |
| ISBN | : 9780061099588 |
An account of the organized underworld of ritualistic terror operating in a picturesque Massachusetts town discusses the work of police, forensic scientists, and anthropologists to piece together a series of crimes. Reprint.
| Author | : Leilah Wendell |
| Publisher | : Westgate Co |
| Total Pages | : 68 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780944087039 |
Successful working of any of these devotions will enable you to share consciousness with the Angel of Death as well as becoming 'one' with your own death.
| Author | : Claudia Moser |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2017-11-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0472130579 |
An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions
| Author | : Jessica Hughes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2017-04-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108146163 |
This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body. It collects examples from four principal areas and time periods: Classical Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman Asia Minor. It uses a compare-and-contrast methodology to highlight differences between these sets of votives, exploring the implications for our understandings of how beliefs about the body changed across classical antiquity. The book also looks at how far these ancient beliefs overlap with, or differ from, modern ideas about the body and its physical and conceptual boundaries. Central themes of the book include illness and healing, bodily fragmentation, human-animal hybridity, transmission and reception of traditions, and the mechanics of personal transformation in religious rituals.
| Author | : David R. Fontijn |
| Publisher | : Sidestone Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9088901023 |
Over a 1000 tiny bronze artefacts were found alongside the remains of a man in a Dutch barrow that was excavated in laboratory conditions. The objects had been dismantled and taken apart, all to be destroyed by fire in what appears to have been a pars pro toto burial. In essence, a person and a place were being transformed through destruction. Based on the meticulous excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail. This Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe.
| Author | : Nerissa Russell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2011-11-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139504347 |
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more. These social factors are as significant as taphonomic processes in shaping animal bone assemblages. Nerissa Russell uses evidence derived from not only zooarchaeology, but also ethnography, history and classical studies, to suggest the range of human-animal relationships and to examine their importance in human society. Through exploring the significance of animals to ancient humans, this book provides a richer picture of past societies.
| Author | : Catherine Bell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1992-01-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780199760381 |
Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell's work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.
| Author | : Adam Nevill |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 435 |
| Release | : 2012-02-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0312641842 |
A horror debut by one of Britain's most celebrated up-and-coming writers, in which four friends get lost in a forest in Sweden, to find their lives are in mortal peril... as something evil lurks.
