Religion History And Place In The Origin Of Settled Life

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607327376
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life written by Ian Hodder and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East, focusing on the repetitive construction of houses or cult buildings in the same place. Prominent archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religion working at several of the region’s most important sites—such as Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, Körtik Tepe, and Aşıklı Höyük—contend that religious factors significantly affected the timing and stability of settled economic structures. Contributors argue that the long-term social relationships characteristic of delayed-return agricultural systems must be based on historical ties to place and to ancestors. They define different forms of history-making, including nondiscursive routinized practices as well as commemorative memorialization. They consider the timing in the Neolithic of an emerging concern with history-making in place in relation to the adoption of farming and settled life in regional sequences. They explore whether such correlations indicate the causal processes in which history-making, ritual practices, agricultural intensification, population increase, and social competition all played a role. Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life takes a major step forward in understanding the adoption of farming and a settled way of life in the Middle East by foregrounding the roles of history-making and religious ritual. This work is relevant to students and scholars of Near Eastern archaeology, as well as those interested in the origins of agriculture and social complexity or the social role of religion in the past. Contributors: Kurt W. Alt, Mark R. Anspach, Marion Benz, Lee Clare, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Morris Cohen, Oliver Dietrich, Güneş Duru, Yilmaz S. Erdal, Nigel Goring-Morris, Ian Hodder, Rosemary A. Joyce, Nicola Lercari, Wendy Matthews, Jens Notroff, Vecihi Özkaya, Feridun S. Şahin, F. Leron Shults, Devrim Sönmez, Christina Tsoraki, Wesley Wildman

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492179
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Emergence of Civilization written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Çatalhöyük as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from Çatalhöyük within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107047331
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collaboration between archaeologists and a range of specialists in ritual and religion, looking at the role of religion in early human societies.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476023
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily for researchers and students in the archaeology of the Ancient Near East. The volume results from intense interaction between archaeologists at these sites and a group of theorists studying the scholarship of René Girard.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484921
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consciousness, Creativity, and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the widely held assumption that the Neolithic saw an overall cognitive revolution.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
ISBN 13 : 191209049X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Çatalhöyük written by Ian Hodder and published by British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents material artifacts recovered from the site in these seasons, including a range of clay-based objects (ceramics, clay balls, tokens, figurines) as well as those made of stone, shell and textile.

Author : Kimberley Hockings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198842465
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alcohol and Humans written by Kimberley Hockings and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol use has a long and ubiquitous history. The prevailing tendency to view alcohol merely as a 'social problem' or the popular notion that alcohol only serves to provide us with a 'hedonic' high, masks its importance in the social fabric of many human societies both past and present. To understand alcohol use, as a complex social practice that has been exploited by humans for thousands of years, requires cross-disciplinary insight from social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, psychologists, primatologists, and biologists. This multi-disciplinary volume examines the broad use of alcohol in the human lineage and its wider relationship to social contexts such as feasting, sacred rituals, and social bonding. Alcohol abuse is a small part of a much more complex and social pattern of widespread alcohol use by humans. This alone should prompt us to explore the evolutionary origins of this ancient practice and the socially functional reasons for its continued popularity. The objectives of this volume are: (1) to understand how and why nonhuman primates and other animals use alcohol in the wild, and its relevance to understanding the social consumption of alcohol in humans; (2) to understand the social function of alcohol in human prehistory; (3) to understand the sociocultural significance of alcohol across human societies; and (4) to explore the social functions of alcohol consumption in contemporary society. 'Alcohol in Humans' will be fascinating reading for those in the fields of biology, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, as well as those with a broader interest in addiction.

Author : Ian Hodder
Publisher : British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
ISBN 13 : 1912090759
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük written by Ian Hodder and published by British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports on the ways in which humans engaged in their material and biotic environments at Çatalhöyük, using a wide range of archaeological evidence. This volume also summarizes work on the skeletal remains recovered from the site, as well as analytical research on isotopes and aDNA.

Author : Jan Driessen
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875589962
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OIKOS written by Jan Driessen and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers explores whether the Lévi-Straussian notion of the House is a valid concept in aiding the comprehension of the social structure of Bronze Age Aegean societies. The volume succeeds in stressing the advances made in the study of social structure of the Aegean on the basis of material remains.

Author : Lacey B. Carpenter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000464946
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change written by Lacey B. Carpenter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology. This volume develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the archaeology of households pursuing three critical themes: household diversity in human residential communities with and without archaeologically identifiable houses, interactions within and between households that explicitly considers impacts of kin and non-kin relationships, and lastly change as a process that involves the choices made by members of households in the context of larger societal constraints. Encompassing these themes, authors explore the role of social ties and their material manifestations (within the house, dwelling, or other constructed space), how the household relates to other social units, how households consolidate power and control over resources, and how these changes manifest at multiple scales. The case studies presented in this volume have broader implications for understanding the drivers of change, the ways households create the contexts for change, and how households serve as spaces for invention, reaction, and/or resistance. Understanding the nature of relationships within households is necessary for a more complete understanding of communities and regions as these ties are vital to explaining how and why societies change. Taking a comparative outlook, with case studies from around the world, this volume will inform students and professionals researching household archaeology and be of interest to other disciplines concerned with the relationship between social networks and societal change.