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Sacred Killing
The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East
- 352 pages
- English
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About this book
What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Archaeology and Sacrifice
- Chapter 2: On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities: An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India
- Chapter 3: Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
- Chapter 4: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe
- Chapter 5: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe
- Chapter 6: Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified: Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur
- Chapter 7: Restoring Order: Death, Display, and Authority
- Chapter 8: Mortal Mirrors: Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia
- Chapter 9: Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History
- Chapter 10: Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion: The Uses of Ritual in a Multiethnic Community
- Chapter 11: Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East: Offering and Ritual Killing
- Chapter 12: On Sacrifice: An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice
- Index