Title: Beyond belief :
Authors: Rowan, Yorke M.; Aldenderfer, Mark S.; American Anthropological Association.
Date: 2012
Publisher: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc.,
Physical description: iii, 188 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Theorizing the spiritual. Beyond belief : the archaeology of religion and ritual / Yorke M. Rowan -- Matters of belief : middle-range theory, religion, and the "state" / Susan Kus --Envisioning a pragmatic approach to the archaeology of religion / Mark Aldenderfer -- Materializing the spiritual. Technology and morality : rituals in iron working among the Fipa and Pangwa peoples in southwestern Tanzania / Randi Barndon -- Toward an achaeology of secrecy : power, paradox, and the great gods of Samothrace / Sandra Blakely -- Political economy and the routinization of religious movements : a view from the eastern Woodlands / Robin A. Beck Jr. and James A. Brown -- Deconstructing and recomposing the narrative of spiritual life in the Chalcolithic of the southern Levant (4500-3600 BCE) / David Ilan and Yorke M. Rowan -- Materiality and sacred landscapes : Ulúa style marble vases in Honduras / Christina Luke -- Experiencing the spiritual. Meanings and functions of enclosed places in the European Neolithic : a contextual approach to cult, ritual and religion / Peter F. Biehl -- The semiotics of Gunung Kawi : materializing affiliation at ancient and modern Balinese temples / John W. Schoenfelder -- Signs in human hands : a model for the intonated objects / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Conclusions. What should an archaeology of religion look like to a blind archaeologist? / Rosemary A. Joyce.
Notes: "AP3A"--Spine. "This volume details recent archaeological explorations of ancient religion and sacred ritual. The chapters bring multiple perspectives and differing methodological approaches to case studies representing widely divergent regions and time periods to illustrate some of the most recent methodological and theoretical approaches to the archaeological study of ancient relgion and ritual"--Publisher's website.
Subject headings (LCSH): Archaeology and religion.; Religion--History; Ritual--History.