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Title

Cult in context : reconsidering ritual in archaeology / edited by David A. Barrowclough and Caroline Malone.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Barrowclough, David A.
• Malone, Caroline.

Description

xi, 352 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Subjects

• Religion, Prehistoric > Malta > Congresses
• Archaeology and religion > Malta > Congresses
• Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Archaeology and religion > Congresses
• Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric > Malta > Congresses
• Religion, Prehistoric > Congresses

Note

• "This volume arose out of a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in December 2006"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Cult in context / Caroline Malone, David A. Barrowclough and Simon Stoddart -- Ritual and cult in Malta and beyond: traditions of interpretation / Colin Renfrew -- Maltese Temple cult: the antecedents / David Trump -- Of giants and deckchairs: understanding the Maltese megalithic temples / Katya Stroud -- Ritual space and structure: the context of cult in Malta and Gozo / Caroline Malone -- Landscape and ritual in late Neolithic Malta / Reuben Grima -- Mapping cult context: GIS applications in Maltese temples / Michael Anderson and Simon Stoddart -- Putting cult in context: ritual, religion and cult in temple period Malta / David A. Barrowclough -- The Maltese death cult in context / Simon Stoddart -- From Cabiri to goddesses: cult, ritual and context in the formative years of Maltese archaeology / Nicholas Vella -- Ephebism in Maltese prehistoric art? / Andrew Townsend -- Gender tension in figurines in SE Europe / Robin Hardie -- Religious experience in the prehistoric Maltese underworld / Robin Skeates -- Underground religion revisited / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- The Phoenicians and the Maltese prehistoric cultural landscape / Anthony Bonanno -- Cult of the dead or cult for the dead: studies of Jewish catacombs in Malta in context / Piotr Drag -- Architectural order and the ordering of imagery in Malta and Ireland: a comparative perspective / Christopher Tilley -- Culture and cult: some aspects of passage tomb society in the Boyne Region, Ireland / George Eogan -- Working stone: making monuments in the Irish Neolithic / Gabriel Cooney -- Towards the within: Stonehenge and its purpose / Timothy Darvill -- Walking the track and believing: the sweet track as a means of accessing earlier Neolithic spirituality / Clive Jonathon Bond -- Resting in pieces: deposition practices at the Mound of the Hostages, Tara, Ireland / Muiris O'Sullivan -- Enclosing places: a contextual approach to cult and religion in Neolithic central Europe / Peter F. Biehl -- Carving identity: the social context of Neolithic rock art and megalithic art / Blaze O'Connor -- Animism in the rock art and material culture of prehistoric Siberia / Liliana Janik -- The sacred engagement: outline of a hypothesis about the origin of human 'religious experience' / Lambros Malafouris -- Time, cycles and ritual behaviour / Iain Morley -- The shipping news: land and water in Bronze Age Scandinavia / Richard Bradley -- The late classic drought cult: ritual activity as a response to environmental stress among the ancient Maya / Holley Moyes -- Cult in cometary context / Patrick McCafferty -- Cult in context in Jomon Japan / Simon Kaner -- Bringing down the mountain: standing stones on the Northern and Central Tibetan Plateau, 500 BCE-500 CE / Mark Aldenerfer -- The meaning of ritual diversity in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant / Yorke M. Rowan and David Ilan -- Housing the dead: burials inside houses and vessels in the Neolithic Balkans / Goce Naumov -- A fire cult in south European Chalcolithic traditions: on the relationship between ritual contexts and the instrumentality of fire / Dragos Gheorgiu -- A contextual approach to ancient Egyptian domestic cult: the case of the 'lustration slabs' at el-Amarna / Kate Spence -- The ultimate redundancy package: routine, structure and the archaeology of ritual transmission / Camilla Briault -- They dynamics of ritual on Minoan Peak sanctuaries / Alan Peatfield -- In what context? Competing and complementary approaches to contextual analysis in the study of Minoan religion / Matthew Haysom -- Broken pots and severed heads: cult activity in Iron Age Europe / Sarah Ralph -- Contexts of cult in Hispania Celtica / Silvia Alfayé -- The role of votive objects in Roman religious practices between the fourth and second centuries BC / Letizia Ceccarelli -- 'Totems', 'ancestors' and 'animism'. The archaeology of ritual, shrines and sacrifice amongst the Tallensi of Northern Ghana / Timothy Insoll -- Towards an archaeology of performance / Jon P. Mitchell.

Call Number

JFF 08-912

ISBN

• 9781842173039
• 1842173030

OCLC

181142256

Title

Cult in context : reconsidering ritual in archaeology / edited by David A. Barrowclough and Caroline Malone.

Imprint

Oxford : Oxbow, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Barrowclough, David A.

Malone, Caroline.

Research Call Number

JFF 08-912