Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East

Herausgeber: Hodder, Ian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is primarily for researchers and students in the archaeology of the Ancient Near East. The volume results from intense interaction between archaeologists at these sites and a group of theorists studying the scholarship of Renà Girard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476027
• ISBN-10: 1108476023
• Artikelnr.: 54471621

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Setting the archaeological scene Ian Hodder; 2.
Introduction to the thought of René Girard William A. Johnsen; Part II.
Violence and the Sacred: 3. Death in Çatalhöyük Wolfgang Palaver; 4. A
Girardian framework for violent injuries at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in their
Western Asian context Christopher J. Knüsel, Bonnie Glencross and Marco
Milella; 5. Ritual practices and conflict mitigation at Early Neolithic
Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, Upper Mesopotamia: a mimetic theoretical
approach Lee Clare, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Gresky, Jens Notroff, Joris
Peters and Nadja Pöllath; 6. Paired leopards and encircled prey: images of
rivalry and sacrifice at Çatalhöyük Mark Anspach; Part III. The Dialectics
of Mimesis: 7. Mimetic theory, the wall paintings, and the domestication,
de-domestication, and sacrifice of cattle at Çatalhöyük William A. Johnsen;
8. The ordeal of the town. Rites and symbols at Çatalhöyük Benoît Chantre;
9. Stretching Girard's hypothesis: road marks for a long-term perspective
James Alison; 10. Girard's anthropology vs. cognitive archaeology
Jean-Pierre Dupuy; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Religion as a factor in the
development of settled life Ian Hodder.