The Archaeology of Ritual


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Series: Cotsen Advanced Seminar 3
ISBN: 978-1-931745-47-5
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Price: Hb $55.00, Pb $42.00, eBook $34.00
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Evangelos Kyriakidis

This book is the fruit of the third Cotsen Advanced Seminar conducted at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. A wide spectrum of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance Archaeology of Ritualand of religion, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists were all asked to think and comment on how ritual can be traced in archaeology and on possible directions for ritual research in the discipline. The outcome is a collection of papers that is thought provoking, often controversial, but always of extremely high quality.
Table of Contents

Chapter 1. In Search of Ritual by Evangelos Kyriakidis
Chapter 2. Finding Ritual: Calibrating the Evidence by Evangelos Kyriakidis     
Chapter 3. History, Ethnography, and Essentialism: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in South Asia by Lars Fogelin
Chapter 4. Rethinking Ritual by Joyce Marcus           
Chapter 5. Archaeological Andean Rituals: Performance, Liturgy, and Meaning by Christine A. Hastorf        Chapter 6.The Archaeology of Ritual, of Cult, and of Religion by Colin Renfrew 
Chapter 7. Living Ritual and Indigenous Archaeology: The Case of Zimbabwe by Terence Ranger      
Chapter 8. The Reinvention of Odissi Classical Dance as a Temple Ritual by Alessandra Lopez y Royo        Chapter 9. Ritualized Technologies in the Aegean Neolithic? The Crafts of Adornment by Marianna Nikolaidou  
Chapter 10. Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology by Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson  Chapter 11. Sacrifice And Ritualization by Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw       
Chapter 12. Response: Defining the Need for a Definition by Catherine Bell

Chapter 13. Archaeologies of Ritual by Evangelos Kyriakidis