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For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic
experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual
belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first
systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in
the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine
contributors represent a broad range of scholarly disciplines,
seeking answers to fundamental questions regarding the patterns and
commonalities of this vital aspect of the past. How was the
experience construed and by what means was it achieved? Who was
involved? Where and when were rites carried out? How was it
reflected in pictorial arts and written records? What was its
relation to other components of the sociocultural compact? In
proposing responses, the authors draw upon a wealth of original
research in many fields, generating new perspectives and
thought-provoking, often surprising, conclusions. With their
abundant cross-cultural and cross-temporal references, the chapters
mutually enrich each other and collectively deepen our
understanding of ecstatic phenomena thousands of years ago. Another
noteworthy feature of the book is its illustrative content,
including commissioned reconstructions of ecstatic scenarios and
pairings of works of Bronze Age and modern psychedelic art.
Scholars, students and other readers interested in antiquity,
comparative religion and the social and cognitive sciences will
find much to explore in the fascinating realm of ecstatic
experience in the ancient world.
A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that
addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context
This innovative presentation of ancient objects in the Menil
Collection offers a new model for understanding works from
antiquity that lack archaeological context. Editors John North
Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, and Paul R. Davis with 11 additional
authors employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical
studies, and known provenance to gain insight into both the meaning
of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly
about archaeology, art history, and collecting practices. As they
take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste,
these essays bring to life works that are often consigned to either
the imperial past or conceptual limbo and introduce a fresh
framework through which to engage with the multilayered history
that these objects represent.
Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally
investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and
ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World.
Previously, scholarship has focused on description and
documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative
function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have
emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity,
gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the
artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and
theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research
on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural
and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the
significance of an important class of material culture of the
ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for
scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal
production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East,
Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd
Millennia BCE.
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