Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East

Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East

Girardian Conversations at Catalhoeyuk

Hodder, Ian (Stanford University, California)

Cambridge University Press

03/2019

272

Dura

Inglês

9781108476027

15 a 20 dias

This book is primarily for researchers and students in the archaeology of the Ancient Near East. The volume results from intense interaction between archaeologists at these sites and a group of theorists studying the scholarship of Rene Girard.
Part I. Introduction: 1. Setting the archaeological scene Ian Hodder; 2. Introduction to the thought of Rene Girard William A. Johnsen; Part II. Violence and the Sacred: 3. Death in Catalhoeyuk Wolfgang Palaver; 4. A Girardian framework for violent injuries at Neolithic Catalhoeyuk in their Western Asian context Christopher J. Knusel, Bonnie Glencross and Marco Milella; 5. Ritual practices and conflict mitigation at Early Neolithic Koertik Tepe and Goebekli Tepe, Upper Mesopotamia: a mimetic theoretical approach Lee Clare, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Gresky, Jens Notroff, Joris Peters and Nadja Poellath; 6. Paired leopards and encircled prey: images of rivalry and sacrifice at Catalhoeyuk Mark Anspach; Part III. The Dialectics of Mimesis: 7. Mimetic theory, the wall paintings, and the domestication, de-domestication, and sacrifice of cattle at Catalhoeyuk William A. Johnsen; 8. The ordeal of the town. Rites and symbols at Catalhoeyuk Benoit Chantre; 9. Stretching Girard's hypothesis: road marks for a long-term perspective James Alison; 10. Girard's anthropology vs. cognitive archaeology Jean-Pierre Dupuy; Part IV. Conclusion: 11. Religion as a factor in the development of settled life Ian Hodder.
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