Ritual Landscape And Performance

Author : Christina Geisen
Publisher : Yale Egyptology
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950343133

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Ritual Landscape and Performance by Christina Geisen Pdf

Ritual Landscape and Performance contains the peer-reviewed Egyptological contributions from the homonymous conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt.

Author : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259308

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Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America by Cheryl Claassen Pdf

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.

Author : Michel Conan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0884023133

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Performance and Appropriation by Michel Conan Pdf

Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change. This book demonstrates methods and the striking results of garden reception studies. The first section explores how cultural changes occur, and devotes chapters to public landscapes in the Netherlands, seventeenth-century Parisian gardens, Freemason gardens in Tuscany, nineteenth-century Scottish kitchen gardens, and the public parks of Edo and modern Tokyo. The second part provides striking examples of construction of self in vernacular gardens in Guadeloupe and American Japanese-style gardens in California. Finally, the third section analyzes struggles for political change in gardens of Yuan China and modern Britain.

Author : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259315

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Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America by Cheryl Claassen Pdf

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.

Author : Olivia C. Navarro-Farr,Michelle Rich
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816530960

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Archaeology at El Perú-Waka' by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr,Michelle Rich Pdf

This is the first book to summarize the results of long-term field research at the major Maya site of Waka'. Bringing together findings from diverse research programs of the El Perú-Waka' Regional Archaeological Project, its fifteen wide-ranging contributions lead to a greater understanding of the richness and complexity of Classic-period Maya culture.

Author : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 0203459679

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Ritual, Performance, Media by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199943593

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Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson Pdf

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9780415163385

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Ritual, Performance, Media by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Phillip B. Zarrilli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415462235

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Theatre Histories by Phillip B. Zarrilli Pdf

Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.

Author : Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030768256

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The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies by Pamela J. Stewart,Andrew J. Strathern Pdf

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also with history; related to science and health practices and ranging across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners. Due to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power, Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media, and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to developments in the future.

Author : Lutz Käppel,Vassiliki Pothou
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783847002529

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Human Development in Sacred Landscapes by Lutz Käppel,Vassiliki Pothou Pdf

The conference was focused on the identification and interpretation of sacred areas principally – but not exclusively – in the ancient Greek world and in the study of Greek religious ideas or religious practice. For example: what did ancient Greece, from the Mesolithic onwards, look like, if it is possible to identify sacred areas on a landscape scale, like ancient Delos or modern Mount Athos, and if the sacred landscapes were differing from the countryside. Another paper offered a new understanding of the role of astronomical observations in the Delphic and Spartan landscapes, the performance of the religious sites in the Spartan sanctuary of Artemis Orthia and the operation of the Delphic oracle. Most of the contributions were directly connected with the cult of Apollo and the history and tradition of the famous sanctuary of Delphi. A different paper examined the treatment of Apollo's journey from Delos to Delphi described in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. According to a further contributor the network formed by connections between sanctuaries was looser than political federation, but helps to explain why panhellenic sanctuaries were so central to the articulation of Greek identity.

Author : Nico Staring
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004467149

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The Saqqara Necropolis through the New Kingdom by Nico Staring Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive monographic treatment of the New Kingdom (1539–1078 BCE) necropolis at Saqqara, the burial ground of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and addresses questions fundamental to understanding the site’s development through time. For example, why were certain areas of the necropolis selected for burial in certain time periods; what were the tombs’ spatial relations to contemporaneous and older monuments; and what effect did earlier structures have on the positioning of tombs and structuring of the necropolis in later times? This study adopts landscape biography as a conceptual tool to study the long-time interaction between people and landscapes.

Author : Giorgos Papantoniou,Christine Morris,Athanasios K. Vionis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9925745543

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Unlocking Sacred Landscapes by Giorgos Papantoniou,Christine Morris,Athanasios K. Vionis Pdf

Author : Evangelos Kyriakidis
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781938770395

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The Archaeology of Ritual by Evangelos Kyriakidis Pdf

A wide spectrum of scholars, historians, art historians, anthropologists, students of performance, students of religion, archaeologists, cognitive scientists, and linguists were all asked to think and comment on how ritual can be traced in archaeology and which ways ritual research can go in that discipline. The product is a fairly accurate representation of research on ritual and the archaeology of ritual: scholars from various disciplines, backgrounds and agendas, arguing mostly in the most logical fashion, yet with little agreement between them. So this book should not be seen as presenting one unified attitude towards ritual and its study in archaeology. It should rather be seen as a reflection of what the discourse in the archaeology of ritual is today. The outcome has been extremely thought-provoking, often controversial, but always of extremely high quality.

Author : Richard Bussmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107030381

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The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt by Richard Bussmann Pdf

In this book, Richard Bussmann presents a fresh overview of ancient Egyptian society and culture in the age of the pyramids. He addresses key themes in the comparative research of early complex societies, including urbanism, funerary culture, temple ritual, kingship, and the state, and explores how ideas and practices were exchanged between ruling elites and local communities in provincial Egypt. Unlike other studies of ancient Egypt, this book adopts an anthropological approach that places people at the centre of the analysis. Bussmann covers a range of important themes in cross-cultural debates, such as materiality, gender, non-elite culture, and the body. He also offers new perspectives on social diversity and cultural cohesion, based on recent discoveries. His study vividly illustrates how our understanding of ancient Egyptian society benefits from the application of theoretical concepts in archaeology and anthropology to the interpretation of the evidence.