Ritual and Archaic States
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Ritual and Archaic States

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Ritual and Archaic States

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While ritual and archaic states have both been prominent topics in recent archaeological studies, this is the first volume to combine both subjects by exploring the varying nature, expression, and significance of ritual in archaic states. It compares archaic rituals across many different cultures--Vijayanagara, Swahili Lamu, Venice, Asante, Aztec, Ming China, Oaxaca, Greece, Inca, Wari, and Chaco.

The contributors posit that the nature of rituals, the level of investment in rituals, and their sociopolitical significance can vary greatly from state to state, even among societies with similar levels of social complexity, population, and spatial distribution. Highlighting the importance of ritual as an inherent part of a cultural narrative, and demonstrating how the study of ritual enables a better understanding of diverse social groups, this volume shows how the location, frequency, and role of ritual differed significantly across archaic states.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Ritual and Archaic States
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface
  10. 1. Variation and Change in Archaic States: Ritual as a Mechanism of Sociopolitical Integration
  11. 2. The Variety of Ritual Experience in Premodern States
  12. 3. Same, Same, but Different: Ritual in the Archaic States of Pylos and Mycenae
  13. 4. Rituals and Ceremonies at the Mycenaean Cemetery at Dendra
  14. 5. Feasting and Burials on the Peruvian Central Coast at the Onset of the Middle Horizon
  15. 6. Religious Ritual and Wari State Expansion
  16. 7. The Role of Ideology in Emerging Hierarchies at Late Archaic and Early Horizon Sites along the Central Coast of Peru
  17. 8. The Architecture of Ritual and Polity at Chaco Canyon
  18. 9. Discussant
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index