Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Renfrew, Colin

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Produktbeschreibung

The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of the first complex societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times until the development of early religion in the Near East, in China, in Peru, in Mesoamerica and beyond. Here, leading prehistorians and other specialists bring a fresh approach to the early practices that underlie the faiths and religions of the world. They demonstrate the profound role of play ritual and belief systems and offer powerful new insights into the emergence of early civilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108547512
• Artikelnr.: 50216516

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introducing ritual, play and belief: in evolution and early human
societies Iain Morley; 2. Introduction: play as the precursor of ritual in
early human societies Colin Renfrew; Part I. Play and Ritual: Forms,
Foundations and Evolution in Animals and Humans: 3. The origins, evolution,
and interconnections of play and ritual: setting the stage Gordon
Burghardt; 4. Play and creativity Patrick Bateson; 5. Pretend and
sociodramatic play in evolutionary and developmental perspective Peter K.
Smith; 6. Pretend play, cognition and life-history in human evolution Iain
Morley; 7. From play and ritualisation to ritual and its arts: sources of
Upper Pleistocene ritual practices in Lower Middle Pleistocene ritualised
and play behaviours in ancestral hominins Ellen Dissanayake; Part II.
Playing with Belief and Performance in Ancient Societies: 8. Maya sacred
play: the view from El Perú-Waka' David Friedel and Michelle Rich; 9.
Communal performance and ritual practice in the Ancestral Puebloan era of
the American Southwest Claire Halley; 10. Architecture and imagery in the
early Neolithic of Southwest Asia: framing rituals, stabilizing meanings
Trevor Watkins; 11. Dancing with masks in the Protohistoric Near East Yosef
Garfinkel; 12. Ritual, mimesis and the animal world in early China Roel
Sterckx; 13. Manipulating the bones: Eating and augury in the Maltese
temples Caroline Malone; Part III. The Ritual in the Game, The Game in the
Ritual: 14. Play, ritual and transformation: Sports, animals and manhood in
Egyptian and Aegean art Lyvia Morgan; 15. Bull games in Minoan Crete:
social and symbolic dimensions Nanno Marinatos; 16. Epic Games Nigel
Spivey; 17. The ball game, boxing and ritual bloodsport in ancient
Mesoamerica Karl Taube; 18. Rituals, games and learning Vanghelis
Kyriakidis; Part IV. From Play to Faith? Discussion: 19. Play and ritual:
some thoughts from a material-culture perspective Lambros Malafouris; 20.
Believing in play and ritual Robin Osborne; 21. The pentagram of
performance: ritual, play and social transformation Iain Morley.