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The Power of Ritual in Prehistory - Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity (Paperback)
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The Power of Ritual in Prehistory - Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity (Paperback)
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The Power of Ritual in Prehistory is the first book in nearly a
century to deal with traditional secret societies from a
comparative perspective and the first from an archaeological
viewpoint. Providing a clear definition, as well as the material
signatures, of ethnographic secret societies, Brian Hayden
demonstrates how they worked, what motivated their organizers, and
what tactics they used to obtain what they wanted. He shows that
far from working for the welfare of their communities, traditional
secret societies emerged as predatory organizations operated for
the benefit of their own members. Moreover, and contrary to the
prevailing ideas that prehistoric rituals were used to integrate
communities, Hayden demonstrates how traditional secret societies
created divisiveness and inequalities. They were one of the key
tools for increasing political control leading to chiefdoms,
states, and world religions. Hayden's conclusions will be
eye-opening, not only for archaeologists, but also for
anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of religion.
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