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Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East
- Title
- Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz.
- Publication
- Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS56 .S13 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 328 pages : illustrations, map, plans; 26 cm
- Subject
- To 1500
- Social archaeology > Middle East
- Sacrifice > Middle East > History > To 1500
- Rites and ceremonies > Middle East > History > To 1500
- Antiquities
- Rites and ceremonies
- Sacrifice
- Social archaeology
- Opfer Religion
- Religiöses Leben
- Middle East > Antiquities
- Middle East > Religious life and customs
- Middle East
- Alter Orient
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 / Gillian Goslinga, with an introduction by Anne Porter -- Socio-political implications of Neolithic foundation deposits and the possibility of child sacrifice : a case study at Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Sharon Moses -- Hunting sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük / 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 multiethnic 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.
- ISBN
- 9781575062365
- 1575062364
- LCCN
- 2012023485
- 40021454195
- OCLC
- ocn797969812
- 797969812
- SCSB-14412542
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library