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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Material religion in antiquity (MaReA) ; volume 1
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| Contents |
Sacred body : introduction / Nicola Laneri -- Materializing what matters. Ritualized bodies from a time before text / Liv Nilsson Stutz -- Inscribing bodies in Bronze Age Cyprus / Louise Steel -- Manufacturing relics : the social construction of the 'sacred things' / Arianna Rotondo -- You're in or you're out : the inclusion or exclusion of sacred royal bodies in the tomb of the 21st Dynasty High Priests of Amen / Kathlyn Cooney -- Materializing the ancestors: sacred body parts and fragments in the ancient Near East / Melissa S. Cradic -- Modified bodies : an interpretation of social identity embedded into bones / Yilmaz Selim Erdal and Valentina D'Amico -- Feeding the divine. Body concepts and human sacrifice among the classic period Maya / Vera Tiesler and Erik Velásquez García. |
| Summary |
The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, parts of selected human body parts or skeletal elements can then become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural as demonstrated by the cult of the human skulls among Neolithic communities in the Near East as well as the cult of the relics of Christian saints. 0The aim of this volume is to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played in antiquity by humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in perceiving the supernatural by the community of the livings. Case studies on ritual aspects of funerary practices is presented, emphasising the varied roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics. Other papers take a wider look at regional practices in various time periods and cultural contexts to explore the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of death in human culture. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. |
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
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Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Human body -- Religious aspects. |
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Death -- Religious aspects.
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Death -- Religious aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Laneri, Nicola, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sacred body. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2021 9781789255188 (OCoLC)1222802125 |
| ISBN |
9781789255195 (electronic book) |
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1789255198 (electronic book) |
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9781789255218 (electronic book) |
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178925521X (electronic book) |
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178925518X |
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9781789255188 |
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