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Rituals of the Past
. Ed(S): Rosenfeld, Silvana; Bautista, Stefanie
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Hardback. Editor(s): Rosenfeld, Silvana; Bautista, Stefanie. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years. Contributors deal with theoretical and methodological concerns including non-human and human agency; the development and maintenance of political and religious authority, ideology, cosmologies, and social ... Read more
Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years. Contributors deal with theoretical and methodological concerns including non-human and human agency; the development and maintenance of political and religious authority, ideology, cosmologies, and social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9781607325956
SKU
V9781607325956
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Rosenfeld, Silvana; Bautista, Stefanie
Silvana A. Rosenfeld is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Dakota. Her research interests include ancient ritual, animal domestication, ancient foodways, and bone technology, and her work has been published in Quaternary International, Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences, Nawpa Pacha, and Latin American Antiquity. She has conducted most of her fieldwork in Ayacucho, Cuzco, and Chavín de Huántar (Peru), and her research has ... Read more
Reviews for Rituals of the Past
“[This volume] will have a major impact on the study of ritual in the pre-Columbian New World.” —John Janusek, Vanderbilt University "The essays in this volume are on the cutting edge of archaeological research in the Andean region." —Sixteenth Century Journal "Rituals of the Past is a commendable and engaging volume, and the reader will be well rewarded by time ... Read more