The Sacred Body : Materializing the Divine Through Human Remains in Antiquity
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited,
2021.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (161 pages). |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Material religion in antiquity
1 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
The Sacred Body, Laneri, Nicola (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781789255188 |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1. The Sacred Body: introduction
- 2. Materializing what matters. Ritualized bodies from a time before text
- 3. Inscribing bodies in Bronze Age Cyprus
- 4. Manufacturing relics: the social construction of the 'sacred things'
- 5. You're in or you're out: the inclusion or exclusion of sacred royal bodies in the tomb of the 21st Dynasty High Priests of Amen
- 6. Materializing the ancestors: sacred body parts and fragments in the ancient Near East
- 7. Modified bodies: an interpretation of social identity embedded into bones
- 8. Feeding the divine. Body concepts and human sacrifice among the Classic period Maya
- About the Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA) series.
