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Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012Description: 1 online resource (vii, 328 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1575066769
  • 9781575066769
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred killing.DDC classification:
  • 203/.409394 23
LOC classification:
  • DS56
Online resources:
Contents:
Archaeology and Sacrifice / Glenn M. Schwartz -- 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 -- Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : a Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / Nerissa Russell -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe / Elizabeth Carter -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified : Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler -- Restoring Order : Death, Display, and Authority / Jill A. Weber -- Mortal Mirrors : Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia / Anne M. Porter -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History / Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion : the Uses of Ritual in a Multi-ethnic Community / Mary M. Voigt -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East : Offering and Ritual Killing / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- On Sacrifice : an Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice / Roderick Campbell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Archaeology and Sacrifice / Glenn M. Schwartz -- 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 -- Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : a Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / Nerissa Russell -- On Human and Animal Sacrifice in the Late Neolithic at Domuztepe / Elizabeth Carter -- Bludgeoned, Burned, and Beautified : Reevaluating Mortuary Practices in the Royal Cemetery of Ur / Aubrey Baadsgaard, Janet Monge, and Richard L. Zettler -- Restoring Order : Death, Display, and Authority / Jill A. Weber -- Mortal Mirrors : Creating Kin through Human Sacrifice in Third Millennium Syro-Mesopotamia / Anne M. Porter -- Scripts of Animal Sacrifice in Levantine Culture-History / Brian Hesse, Paula Wapnish, and Jonathan Greer -- Human and Animal Sacrifice at Galatian Gordion : the Uses of Ritual in a Multi-ethnic Community / Mary M. Voigt -- Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East : Offering and Ritual Killing / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- On Sacrifice : an Archaeology of Shang Sacrifice / Roderick Campbell.

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