Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East
- Publication/Creation:
- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Porter, Anne, 1957-
Schwartz, Glenn M.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Social archaeology--Middle East
Sacrifice--Middle East--History--To 1500
Rites and ceremonies--Middle East--History--To 1500
Middle East--Antiquities
Middle East--Religious life and customs
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Archaeology and Sacrifice / Glenn M. Schwartz -- On Cakti-Filled Bodies and Divinities : An Ethnographic Perspective on Animal Sacrifice and Ritual in Contemporary South India, with an Introduction by Anne Porter / Gillian Goslinga -- Socio-Political Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : A Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / Nerissa Russell -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe / Elizabeth Carter -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified : Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler -- Restoring Order : Death, Display, and Authority / Jill A. Weber -- Mortal Mirrors : Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia / Anne Porter -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History / Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion : The Uses of Ritual in a Multi-ethnic Community / Mary M. Voigt -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East : Offering and Ritual Killing / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- On Sacrifice : An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice / Roderick Campbell.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- vii, 328 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 26 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990031881400302486
- ISBN:
- 1575062364 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781575062365 (hbk. : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 797969812
- Barcode:
- 300000353311
300000364354
010002607945
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