Human Sacrifice and Value - Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective

This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned, or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings. Bridging a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, it analyses a spectrum of sacrificial logics and actions, daring us to rethink the scholarship of sacrifice by considering the oft hidden, subliminal and even paradoxical values and motivations that underlie sacrificial acts. The chapters give needed attention to pivotal questions in studies of sacrifice and ritualized violence - such as how we might employ new approaches to the existing evidence or revise long-debated theories about what exactly ‘human sacrifice’ is or might be, or why human sacrifice seems to emerge so often and so easily in human social experience across time and in vastly different cultures and historical contexts. Thus, the volume will strike a chord with scholars of sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, religious studies, political science and economics -- wherever interest is focused on critically rethinking questions of sacred and sanctified human violence, and the values that make it what it is.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Sean O'Neill • Matthew J. Walsh • Marianne Moen • Svein H. Gullbekk
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-213486-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-03-213486-0
Barcode:	9781032134864

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