Ritual, play and belief, in evolution and early human societies
play and belief Ritual
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
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| Omfang | xiii, 339 sider : illustrasjoner, kart, diagrammer
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| Opplysninger | 1. Introducing ritual, play and belief, in evolution and early human societies / Iain Morley -- 2. Introduction : play as the precursor of ritual in early human societies / Colin Renfrew -- 3. The origins, evolution and interconnections of play and ritual : setting the stage / Gordon M. Burghardt -- 4. Play and creativity / Patrick Bateson -- 5. Pretend and socio-dramatic play in evolutionary and developmental perspective / Peter K. Smith -- 6. Pretend play, cognition and life-history in human evolution / Iain Morley -- 7. From play and ritualisation to ritual and its arts : sources of Upper Pleistocene ritual practices in Lower Middle Pleistocene ritualised an dplay behaviours in ancestral hominins / Ellen Dissanayake -- 8. Maya sacred play : the view fro El Perú-Waka' / David Freidel and Michelle Rich -- 9. Communal performance and ritual practice in the ancestral puebloan era of the American Southwest / Claire Halley -- 10. Architecture and imagery in the Early Neolithic of South-West Asia : framing rituals, stabilising meanings / Trevor Watkins -- 11. Dancing with masks in the proto-historic Near East / Yosef Garfinkel -- 12. Ritual, mimesis and the animal world in early China / Roell Sterckx -- 13. Manipulating the bones : eating and augury in the Maltese temples / Caroline Malone -- 14. Play, ritual and transformation : sports, animals and manhood in Egyptian and Aegean art / Lyvia Morgan -- 15. Bull games in Minoan Crete : social and symbolic dimensions / Nanno Marinatos -- 16. Epic games / Nigel Spivey -- 17. The ballgame, boxing and ritual blood sport in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl Taube -- 18. Ritual, games and learning / Evangelos Kyriakidis -- 19. Play and ritual : some thoughts from a material-culture perspective / Lambros Malafouris -- 20. Believing in play and ritual / Robin Osborne -- 21. The pentagram of performance : ritual, play and social transformation / Iain Morley. - The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of the first complex societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times until the development of early religion in the Near East, in China, in Peru, in Mesoamerica and beyond. Here, leading prehistorians and other specialists bring a fresh approach to the early practices that underlie the faiths and religions of the world. They demonstrate the profound role of play ritual and belief systems and offer powerful new insights into the emergence of early civilization
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| ISBN | 978-1-107-14356-2. - 978-1-316-50780-3
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