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Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States (Hardcover)
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Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States (Hardcover)
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Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States
explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and
generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to
continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and
how ritual as a culture-forming dynamic affected decline, collapse,
and regeneration of the state. Chapters examine ritual in
collapsing and regenerating archaic states from diverse locations,
time periods, and societies including Crete, Mycenean and Byzantine
Greece, Mesopotamia, India, Africa, Mexico, and Peru. Underscoring
similarities in a variety of archaic states in the role of ritual
during periods of threat, collapse, and transformation, the volume
shows how ritual can be used as a stabilizing or divisive force or
a connecting medium between the present to the past in an
empowering way. It also highlights the diversity of ritual roles
and location in similar situations and illustrates how states in
close proximity and sharing many cultural similarities can respond
differently through ritual to stress and contrast the different
response in rural and urban settings. Through detailed, cultural
specific studies, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the
diverse roles of ritual in the decline, collapse, and regeneration
of societies and will be important for all archaeologists involved
in the important notions of state "collapse" and "regeneration".
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