Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

ISBN-13: 9780367230265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 226 str.

Joanne M. a. Murphy

Opis

Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores role of ritual in variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how decline in a state’s ability to continue in its current form affected practices of ritual.

 

Recenzje

"This book is a must-read for students of collapse. In viewing collapse through the important social, institutional, and political lens of ritual, it reveals a fruitful avenue for further research and for describing and explaining aspects of collapse. It is a lens that allows us to focus on various levels and parts of a society in collapse." – Guy D. Middleton, AJA

O autorze

Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.