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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
This volume compares archaic rituals across civilizations, exploring theoretical models and interpretations for a variety of cultures and ritual practices, focusing especially on the location, frequency, and role of ritual in each of these societies and their resulting archaeological signatures. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Variation and change in archaic states: ritual as a mechanism of sociopolitical integration / Gary M. Feinman -- The variety of ritual experience in premodern states / Richard Blanton -- Same, same, but different: ritual in the archaic states of Pylos and Mycenae / Joanne M. A. Murphy -- Rituals and ceremonies at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Dendra / Ann-Louise Schallin -- Feasting and burials on the Peruvian central coast at the onset of the middle horizon / Giancarlo Marcone Flores -- Religious ritual and Wari State expansion / Patrick Ryan Williams and Donna J. Nash -- The role of ideology in emerging hierarchies at late archaic and early horizon sites along the central Coast of Peru / Jessica Joyce Christie and Matthew Piscitelli -- The architecture of ritual and polity at Chaco Canyon / Stephen H. Lekson -- Discussant / Alexei Vranich. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
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Political anthropology.
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Political anthropology. |
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Ritual -- History.
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Ritual. |
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History. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Murphy, Joanne M. A., 1971- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ritual and archaic states. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 9780813062785 (DLC) 2016015355 (OCoLC)922156052 |
ISBN |
9780813055886 (electronic book) |
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0813055881 (electronic book) |
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9780813062785 |
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0813062780 |
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