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Author:   Timothy Insoll (University of Exeter, University of Exeter, Professor of Archaeology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 6.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.378kg
ISBN:  

9780199232444

ISBN 10:   019923244
Pages:   1136
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Timothy Insoll: Introduction: Ritual and Religion in Archaeological Perspective I. Elements and Expression 1: Chris Scarre: Monumentality 2: Randi Haaland & Gunnar Haaland: Landscape 3: Terje Oestigard: Water 4: Anders Kaliff: Fire 5: Amy Gazin-Schwartz: Myth and Folklore 6: Terje Oestigard: Cosmogony 7: Tim Taylor: Death 8: Nicky Milner: Taboo 9: Marc Verhoeven: The Many Dimensions of Ritual 10: Chris Fowler: Personhood and the Body 11: Timothy Insoll: Sacrifice 12: Randall McGuire & Reinhard Bernbeck: Ideology 13: Michael Dietler: Feasting and Fasting 14: Sarah Milledge Nelson: Gender and Religion in Archaeology 15: Yannis Hamilakis: Archaeologies of the Senses 16: Timothy Clack: Syncretism and Religious Fusion 17: Olivier P. Gosselain: Technology 18: Paul Garwood: Rites of Passage 19: Zoe Crossland: The Archaeology of Contemporary Conflict 20: David S. Whitley: Rock Art, Religion and Ritual II. Prehistoric European Ritual and Religion 21: Paul Pettitt: Religion and Ritual in the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic 22: Paul Bahn: Religion and Ritual in the Upper Palaeolithic 23: Chantal Conneller: The Mesolithic 24: Julian Thomas: Ritual and Religion in the Neolithic 25: Joanna Bruck: Fire, Earth, Water: An Elemental Cosmography of the European Bronze Age 26: Jody Joy: The Iron Age III. Religion and Ritual in World Prehistory 27: Timothy Insoll: Sub-Saharan Africa 28: Lukas Nickel: The Prehistory of Religion in China 29: Simon Kaner: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago 30: Charles Higham: Ritual and Religion in Southeast Asia 31: Bruno David: Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea (Historicising Cosmologies in Australia and Papua New Guinea 32: Paul Rainbird: Pacific and New Zealand 33: Peter Roe: Walking Upside-Down and Backwards: Art and Religion in the Ancient Caribbean 34: Rosemary Joyce: Recognizing Religion in Mesoamerican Archaeology: Maya 35: Michael E. Smith: Aztecs 36: Kevin Lane: Inca 37: Jeffrey Quilter: Moche Religion 38: Kelley Hays-Gilpin: North America: Pueblos 39: James Vernon Knight: North America: Eastern Woodlands 40: Roy L. Carlson: The North American Northwest Coast Religious System: Coastal Northwest 41: Brian Robinson: Ritual and Archaeological Visibility in the Far Northeast of North America IV. Religion and Cult of the Old World 42: Colin Renfrew: Prehistoric Religions in the Aegean 43: Julia Kindt: Ancient Greece 44: Tom Rasmussen: Etruscan Ritual and Religion 45: Anna Stevens: Egypt 46: Richard Hingley: Rome: Imperial and Local Religions 47: Caroline Malone & Simon Stoddart: Maltese Prehistoric Religion 48: Michael J. Seymour: Mesopotamia 49: Marc Verhoeven: Retrieving the Supernatural: Ritual and Religion in the Prehistoric Levant 50: Daniel Potts: Iran 51: Karina Croucher: Anatolia 52: Anders Andren: Old Norse and Germanic Religion 53: Martin Welch: Pre-Christian Practices in the Anglo-Saxon World 54: Tonno Jonuks: The Archaeology of Baltic Religions V. Archaeology of World Religions 55: Aaron A. Burke: The Archaeology of Ritual and Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant, and the Origins of Judaism 56: James F. Strange: The Archaeology of Judaism from the Persian Period to the Sixth Century AD 57: Namita Sugandhi & Kathleen Morrison: Archaeology of Hinduism 58: Robin Coningham: Buddhism 59: Sam Turner: Christianity 60: Andrew Petersen: Islam VI. Archaeology of Indigenous and New Religions 61: Neil Price: Shamanism 62: Timothy Insoll: Animism and Totemism 63: Jenny Blain: Neo-Shamanism: Pagan and 'Neo-Shamanic' Interactions with Archaeology 64: Aleks Pluskowski: Druidism and Neo-Paganism 65: Timothy Insoll: Ancestor Cults 66: Pierre de Maret: Divine Kings

Reviews

This [Handbook] gives many riches, and is both extremely thought provoking and timely. It will be used and enjoyed by readers at many different levels. Alasdair Whittle, European Journal of Archaeology

<br> Editor Insoll has certainly been thorough in compiling this massive tome on the state of research on ritual and religion in archaeology...Sophisticated in method and theory. --CHOICE<p><br>

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Timothy Insoll is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

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