Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Murphy, Joanne M. A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores role of ritual in variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected practices of ritual.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000172713
• Artikelnr.: 59971565

Autorenporträt

Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ritual during periods of decline, collapse and transformation in ancient
states; 2. Old deities for new men: religious practices and societal
transformation during the Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age transitional
period on Crete; 3. Rituals and tombs during the radical transformation of
the Pylian State; 4. The legacy of Byzantine Christianity in the southern
Mani Peninsula, Greece, after imperial collapse; 5. As Wari weakened:
ritual transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru; 6.
Ritual resilience and adaptation in the wake of political transformation at
Dainzú, Oaxaca, Mexico; 7. Rejecting, reinventing, resituating: a
diachronic perspective on ritual in the aftermath of Tiwanaku state
collapse; 8. Contextualizing the ritual phase in the evolution of eastern
and southern African chiefdoms and states; 9. Flux and continuity in
monument-building traditions in south India; 10. Merit-making at ancient
Bagan, Myanmar: the role of socio-spiritual and political-cultural
entanglements in the rise and fall of a classical Southeast Asian state;
11. Scales and pathways of human politico-economic affiliation: the roles
of ritual