The Power Of Ritual In Prehistory
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| Author | : Brian Hayden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2018-09-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108648053 |
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory is the first book in nearly a century to deal with traditional secret societies from a comparative perspective and the first from an archaeological viewpoint. Providing a clear definition, as well as the material signatures, of ethnographic secret societies, Brian Hayden demonstrates how they worked, what motivated their organizers, and what tactics they used to obtain what they wanted. He shows that far from working for the welfare of their communities, traditional secret societies emerged as predatory organizations operated for the benefit of their own members. Moreover, and contrary to the prevailing ideas that prehistoric rituals were used to integrate communities, Hayden demonstrates how traditional secret societies created divisiveness and inequalities. They were one of the key tools for increasing political control leading to chiefdoms, states, and world religions. Hayden's conclusions will be eye-opening, not only for archaeologists, but also for anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of religion.
| Author | : Brian Hayden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2018-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108426395 |
Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
| Author | : Lynne Kelly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2015-05-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107059372 |
In this book, Lynne Kelly explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts. In the first part, she examines knowledge systems within historically recorded oral cultures, showing how the link between power and the control of knowledge is established. Analyzing the material mnemonic devices used by documented oral cultures, she demonstrates how early societies maintained a vast corpus of pragmatic information concerning animal behavior, plant properties, navigation, astronomy, genealogies, laws and trade agreements, among other matters. In the second part Kelly turns to the archaeological record of three sites, Chaco Canyon, Poverty Point and Stonehenge, offering new insights into the purpose of the monuments and associated decorated objects. This book demonstrates how an understanding of rational intellect, pragmatic knowledge and mnemonic technologies in prehistoric societies offers a new tool for analysis of monumental structures built by non-literate cultures.
| Author | : Brian Hayden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2014-09-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107042992 |
In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in societies ranging from the prehistoric to the modern.
| Author | : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1984-05-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521255264 |
This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory.
| Author | : Evangelos Kyriakidis |
| Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2007-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1938770390 |
A wide spectrum of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance, students of religion, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists were all asked to think and comment on how ritual can be traced in archaeology and which ways ritual research can go in that discipline. The product is a fairly accurate representation of research on ritual and the archaeology of ritual: scholars from various disciplines, backgrounds and agendas, arguing mostly in the most logical fashion, yet with little agreement between them. So this book should not be seen as presenting one unified attitude towards ritual and its study in archaeology. It should rather be seen as a reflection of what the discourse in the archaeology of ritual is today. The outcome has been extremely thought-provoking, often controversial, but always of extremely high quality.
| Author | : Brian Hayden |
| Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018-12-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1588344495 |
Historians of art or religion and mythologists, such as Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, have written extensively on prehistoric religion, but no one before has offered a comprehensive and uniquely archaeological perspective on the subject. Hayden opens his book with an examination of the difference between traditional religions, which are passed on through generations orally or experientially, and more modern “book” religions, which are based on some form of scripture that describes supernatural beings and a moral code, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He attempts to answer the question of why religion developed at all, arguing that basic religious behaviors of the past and present have been shaped by our innate emotional makeup, specifically our ability to enter into ecstatic states through a variety of techniques and to create binding relationships with other people, institutions, or ideals associated with those states.
| Author | : Holley Moyes |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 607 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1457117509 |
Caves have been used in various ways across human society but despite the persistence within popular culture of the iconic caveman, deep caves were never used primarily as habitation sites for early humans. Rather, in both ancient and contemporary contexts, caves have served primarily as ritual spaces. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power and a potent venue for ritual practice. Covering the ritual use of caves in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and the US Southwest and Eastern woodlands, this book brings together case studies by prominent scholars whose research spans from the Paleolithic period to the present day. These contributions demonstrate that cave sites are as fruitful as surface contexts in promoting the understanding of both ancient and modern religious beliefs and practices. This state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use will be one of the most valuable resources for understanding the role of caves in studies of religion, sacred landscape, or cosmology and a must-read for any archaeologist interested in caves.
| Author | : Giorgos Vavouranakis |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2019-01-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1789690463 |
This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers, on the frequently neglected popular cult and other ritual practices in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
| 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.
