Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East (eBook, ePUB)

Girardian Conversations at Catalhoyuk
Redaktion: Hodder, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Catalhoyuk and Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108614184
• Artikelnr.: 57077183

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.