Sacred killing
Subtitle: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East
By: edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781575062365
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Sacrifice; History; Social archaeology; Rites and ceremonies; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology and Sacrifice / Glenn M. Schwartz; title: 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; title: Socio-Political Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : A Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses; title: Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / Nerissa Russell; title: On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the   Late Neolithic at Domuztepe / Elizabeth Carter; title: Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified : Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler; title: Restoring Order : Death, Display, and Authority / Jill A. Weber; title: Mortal Mirrors : Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia / Anne Porter; title: Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History / Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer; title: Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion : The Uses of Ritual in a Multi-ethnic Community / Mary M. Voigt; title: Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East : Offering and Ritual Killing / Beate Pongratz-Leisten; title: On Sacrifice : An Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice / Roderick Campbell.