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This book Explores Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices
throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and
religious practices. Analyzes fire rituals as the unifying
structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the
Bronze Age onwards. Asks the question how and why was fire the
ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Has a broad
interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography,
folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
This book Explores Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices
throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and
religious practices. Analyzes fire rituals as the unifying
structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the
Bronze Age onwards. Asks the question how and why was fire the
ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Has a broad
interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography,
folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people
in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for
agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much
contested development, not only between upstream and downstream
neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book
investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It
explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both
by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already
strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments
are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history,
politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of
perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations
theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
Major changes in policy and management , across the entire
agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best
use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for
food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the
successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent
to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and
many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural
production are present and the sheer size of the continent offers
wide ecological variation from extreme desert to dense rainforest.
Drawing together leading international contributors from a wide
variety of disciplines Water and Food offers new insights into the
evolution of food systems, from early hunter gatherers to the
global challenges of the modern world.
The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people
in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for
agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much
contested development, not only between upstream and downstream
neighbours, but also from countries outside the region. This book
investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile Basin. It
explains how the current surge in land and energy investments, both
by foreign actors as well as domestic investors, affects already
strained transboundary relations in the region and how investments
are intertwined within wider contexts of Nile Basin history,
politics and economy. Overall, the book presents a range of
perspectives, drawing on political science, international relations
theory, sociology, history and political ecology.
In 2050, the population in all the Nile Basin countries is expected
to be ten times higher than it was in 1950. This will put ever
increasing pressure on water as a resource for development. The
Nile Basin catchment area is shared by 11 countries covering about
one-tenth of the African continent. Globally, around 70 per cent of
fresh water consumption is used in agriculture. This puts the
spotlight on future scenarios regarding food production: will there
be enough water for food security in the Nile Basin countries? In
this Current African Issues publication, water scarcity and food
security are analysed from a range of perspectives. What are the
future predictions regarding population increase and climate
change, and how will these affect development in Nile Basin
countries? What are the current water theories addressing the above
issues, and what are the main challenges the Nile Basin countries
will face in a context that is also strongly shaped by its history?
Death and the life-giving waters of the Nile were intimately
interwoven in ancient Egyptian religion. The principal objective of
this study is to develop a synthetic perspective for enhancing the
understanding of the religious roles water had in the rise and
constitution of the Egyptian civilisation during the Early Dynastic
Period and the Old Kingdom. The author employs an archaeological,
inter-disciplinary and comparative 'water perspective' in which
water not only forms the analytical framework, but also provides
empirical data that allow for new questions to be addressed. Thus,
the Nile itself is used as the primary point of departure to
analyse how, why and when religious changes took place, with a
particular emphasis on the development of the Osiris cult. Use is
made of contemporary written sources, in particular the Pyramid
Texts, but also other mortuary texts as well as flood records.
16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006,
exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. Contents:
Chapter 1. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
(Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 2. More than
Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology (Liv Nilsson
Stutz); Chapter 3. A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal
Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm (Fredrik
Fahlander); Chapter 4. Excavating the KingsAe Bones: The
Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today 9Anders Kaliff
& Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 5. From Corpse to Ancestor: The
Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in
Ancient Rome (Regina Gee); Chapter 6. Cremations, Conjecture and
Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd
Millennia BC in Scotland (Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor);
Chapter 7. Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The
Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of
Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) (Ulla Rajala); Chapter 8. Reuse in
Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Examples of
Collective Memory (Anna Wickholm); Chapter 9. Life and Death in the
Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula (Ana M. S. Bettencourt);
Chapter 10. Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional
Contacts (Malin Aasbe); Chapter 11. The Use of Ochre in Stone Age
Burials of the East Baltic (Ilga Zagorska); Chapter 12. oDeath
Mythso: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment
during the Migration Period in Norway (Siv Kristoffersen and Terje
Oestigaard); Chapter 13. Reproduction and Relocation of Death in
Iron Age Scandinavia (Terje Gansum); Chapter 14. A Road for the
VikingAes Soul (Ake Johansson); Chapter 15. A Road to the Other
Side (Camilla Gr); Chapter 16. Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer
and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in
Uppland, Central Sweden (Christina Lindgren).
In this original work, the author aims to develop a synthetic
perspective for enhancing the understanding of the roles that death
and life-giving waters have in the constitution of society and
cosmos in karmic traditions. This is achieved through a material
culture study of death and funeral practices as cultural, ritual,
and religious processes in parts of Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and
the Indus Valley.
These twenty papers were delivered at a conference held in Bergen
in 2001 which was convened to honour Randi Haaland's contribution
to global archaeology. The papers cover a broad archaeological
spectrum but focus on the archaeology and ethnography of South
America, Africa, Asia, Australia and prehistoric Europe and the
Near East. Five main subjects areas are covered: Gender, rituals
and social identity; Food, consumption and metal production in
prehistory; Evolution, traditions and structures; Approaches to
African archaeology; Cultural Heritage and Rock Art.
This study forms an ethnoarchaeological analysis of the life cycle
rituals from the funeral practice and its manifestation in the
mortuary remains of Brahmans and Magars in Central Dhaulagiri zone
of Nepal'. It is largely based on first-hand experience of funerals
and explores the religious and cosmological ideas surrounding death
and the afterlife, what death represents for the living and the
rites and rituals performed to the deceased. In the final chapter,
Oestigaard considers how this evidence can help us interpret the
burials of the past and re-appraise our Christianised views of
death.
The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For
millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and
explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious
quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving
waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated with
the river have played a key role in the cultural development and
make-up of the societies and civilizations associated with it.
Drawing upon his personal experience and fieldwork in Africa,
including details of rites and ceremonies now fast disappearing,
the author brings out in rich detail the religious and spiritual
meanings attached to the life-giving waters by those whose lives
are so bound to the river. Part religious quest, part exploration
narrative, the author shows how this mighty river is a powerful
source for a greater understanding of human nature, society and
religion.
The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water,
and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not
least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has
been little explored. In this pioneering book, Terje Oestigaard
uses the dramatic changes that took place in perceptions of water
during the Reformation to reveal the importance that water played
in structuring society and religion in the post-Reformation period.
Prior to the Reformation, most common people believed misfortune
and catastrophe were caused by the devil, and sought protection in
the use of holy water blessed by the local priest. Holy water and
holy wells gave laypeople a powerful weapon which could be used to
keep the devil away, cure illness and protect fields, property and
family. But with the Reformation, the nature of holy water was
challenged and belief in the efficacy of holy water and holy wells
was attacked as Popish magic and superstition: the status of holy
water became one of the main battlegrounds between Protestants and
Catholics. The author explores these conflicting views on the
spiritual qualities of water and their consequences for society at
large. He traces the changing views of nature that arose with
Enlightenment developments in the scientific understanding of water
and the hydrological cycle, and shows how the emergence of a
natural theology helped encourage a belief in the Protestant work
ethic whereby wealth and economic success equated with religious
excellence. The author concludes by examining - and challenging -
Weber's claim that the protestant work ethic and capitalist spirit
of enterprise that was so important to the later success of the
Industrial Revolution came about when magic and superstition were
eliminated from religion by the Reformation. The result is a highly
original work that provides one of the most detailed explorations
of the importance of the role of water in structuring society and
religion in post-Reformation England. Offering fresh insights into
the development of society and religion, it will be welcomed by all
those with an interest in water, religion, sociology, and the
Reformation period.
These three volumes present an original exploration of all aspects
of water - social, cultural, political, religious, historical,
economic and technological - from ancient times until the present
day. Among the varied themes, the contributors examine the changing
histories of water as a private or common good, the politics of
water at local, urban, national and international level. With
empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the
three volumes together represent one of the most complete and up to
date accounts of the central role of water in the history and
development of humanity.
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