The sacred body: materializing the divine through human remains in antiquity
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Oxford Havertown
Oxbow Books, Limited
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Material religion in antiquity
Volume 1 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Body
/ Ritual
/ Classical antiquity
B Body / Ritual / Roman Empire / Greece (Antiquity) |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Human body--Religious aspects B Death--Religious aspects B Human body--Symbolic aspects B Electronic books |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (161 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78925-521-8 |
