Sacred killing : the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East /

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Other Authors: Porter, Anne, 1957-, Schwartz, Glenn M.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2012.

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Call Number: DS56 .S13 2012

Table of 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, with an Introduction by Anne Porter / Gillian Goslinga • Sociopolitical Implications of Neolithic Foundation Deposits and the Possibility of Child Sacrifice : a Case Study at Catalhoeyuek, Turkey / Sharon Moses • Hunting Sacrifice at Neolithic Catalhoeyuek / 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 Multi-ethnic 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.