The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span-Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas-and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198858058
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2020
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 1136
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 6.80(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter, Professor of Archaeology

Timothy Insoll is Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Educated at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge from 1995 until 1998, when he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester. After becoming a Reader in 2004 and being awarded a personal chair in 2005 he moved to the University of Exeter in 2016. He is the author or editor of 16 books, three special journal issues, and numerous articles and reviews on a wide range of research topics across the discipline of archaeology, and has completed fieldwork in Mali, Ghana, western India, Bahrain, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective, Timothy InsollI. Elements and Expression1. Monumentality, Chris Scarre2. Landscape, Randi Haaland & Gunnar Haaland3. Water, Terje Oestigard4. Fire, Anders Kaliff5. Myth and Folklore, Amy Gazin-Schwartz6. Cosmogony, Terje Oestigard7. Death, Tim Taylor8. Taboo, Nicky Milner9. The Many Dimensions of Ritual, Marc Verhoeven10. Personhood and the Body, Chris Fowler11. Sacrifice, Timothy Insoll12. Ideology, Randall McGuire & Reinhard Bernbeck13. Feasting and Fasting, Michael Dietler14. Gender and Religion in Archaeology, Sarah Milledge Nelson15. Archaeologies of the Senses, Yannis Hamilakis16. Syncretism and Religious Fusion, Timothy Clack17. Technology, Olivier P. Gosselain18. Rites of Passage, Paul Garwood19. The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict, Zoe Crossland20. Rock Art, Religion and Ritual, David S. WhitleyII. Prehistoric European Ritual and Religion21. Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic, Paul Pettitt22. Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic, Paul Bahn23. The Mesolithic, Chantal Conneller24. Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic, Julian Thomas25. Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age, Joanna Bruck26. The Iron Age, Jody JoyIII. Religion and Ritual in World Prehistory27. Sub-Saharan Africa, Timothy Insoll28. The Prehistory of Religion in China, Lukas Nickel29. The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago, Simon Kaner30. Ritual and Religion in Southeast Asia, Charles Higham31. Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea, Bruno David32. Pacific and New Zealand, Paul Rainbird33. Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean, Peter Roe34. Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya, Rosemary Joyce35. Aztecs, Michael E. Smith36. Inca, Kevin Lane37. Moche Religion, Jeffrey Quilter38. North America: Pueblos, Kelley Hays-Gilpin39. North America: Eastern Woodlands, James Vernon Knight40. The North American Northwest Coast Religious System: Coastal Northwest, Roy L. Carlson41. Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America, Brian RobinsonIV. Religion and Cult of the Old World42. Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean, Colin Renfrew43. Ancient Greece, Julia Kindt44. Etruscan Ritual and Religion, Tom Rasmussen45. Egypt, Anna Stevens46. Rome: Imperial and Local Religions, Richard Hingley47. Maltese Prehistoric Religion, Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart48. Mesopotamia, Michael J. Seymour49. Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant, Marc Verhoeven50. Iran, Daniel Potts51. Anatolia, Karina Croucher52. Old Norse and Germanic Religion, Anders Andren53. Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World, Martin Welch54. The Archaeology of Baltic Religions, Tonno JonuksV. Archaeology of World Religions55. The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism, Aaron A. Burke56. The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD, James F. Strange57. Archaeology of Hinduism, Namita Sugandhi & Kathleen Morrison58. Buddhism, Robin Coningham59. Christianity, Sam Turner60. Islam, Andrew PetersenVI. Archaeology of Indigenous and New Religions61. Shamanism, Neil Price62. Animism and Totemism, Timothy Insoll63. Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology, Jenny Blain64. Druidism and Neo-Paganism, Aleks Pluskowski65. Ancestor Cults, Timothy Insoll66. Divine Kings, Pierre de Maret
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