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Ritual Failure

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Description for Ritual Failure Paperback.
‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory? Do societies change and then their ritual? Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society? Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in ... Read more

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Format
Paperback
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Place of Publication
Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN
9789088902208
SKU
V9789088902208
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About Vasiliki G. Koutrafo
Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri studied Archaeology and History of Art at the University of Athens, Greece. She obtained her PhD on Near Eastern Archaeology, titled ‘Ritual in Prehistory; Definition and Identification. Religious Insights in Early Prehistoric Cyprus’, at the University of Edinburgh. She works for the Publications Department of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, while also supervising excavations at the ... Read more

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