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Violence and the sacred in the ancient Near East : Girardian conversation at C̦atalhöyuk

Title: Violence and the sacred in the ancient Near East : Girardian conversation at C̦atalhöyuk / edited by Ian Hodder.
Publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Hodder, Ian

Description

xiv, 259 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Setting the archaeological scene / Ian Hodder -- Introduction to the thought of René Girard / William Johnsen -- Death in Catalhöyük / Wolfgang Palaver -- A Girardian framework for violent injuries at neolithic Çatalhöyük in their western Asian context / Christopher J. Knüsel, Bonnie Glencross, and Marco Milella -- Ritual practices and conflict mitigation at early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, upper Mesopotamia : a mimetic theoretical approach / Lee Clare, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Gresky, Jens Notroff, Joris Peters, Nadja Pöllath -- Paired leopards and encircled prey : images of rivalry and sacrifice at Çatalhöyük / Mark Anspach -- Mimetic theory, the wall paintings, and the domestication, de-domestication, and sacrifice of cattle at Çatalhöyük / William A. Johnsen -- The ordeal of the town : rites and symbols at Çatalhöyük / Benoît Chantre -- Stretching Girard's hypothesis : road marks for a long-term perspective / James Alison -- Girard's anthropology vs. cognitive archaeology / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Religion as a factor in the development of settled life / Ian Hodder.

Call Number

JFE 19-4806

ISBN

9781108476027
1108476023
9781108469401
110846940X
9781108591829 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018048985

OCLC

1080250987

Title

Violence and the sacred in the ancient Near East : Girardian conversation at C̦atalhöyuk / edited by Ian Hodder.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hodder, Ian, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108591829

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4806

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