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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Ritual Failure' is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and faithful practitioners not performing their rites, entire societies changing their customs: how does a religious ritual system transform, change or disappear, leaving only traces of its past glory Do societies change and then their ritual Or do customs change first, in turn provoking wider cultural shifts in society Archaeology possesses the tools and methodologies to explore these questions over the long term; from the emergence of a system, to its peak, and then its decay and disappearance, and in relation to wider social and chronological developments. The collected papers in this book introduce the concept of 'ritual failure' to archaeology. The analysis explores ways in which ritual may have been instrumental in sustaining cultural continuity during demanding social conditions, or how its functionality might have failed - resulting in discontinuity, change or collapse. The collected papers draw attention to those turbulent social times of change for which ritual practices are a sensitive indicator within the archaeological record. The book reviews archaeological evidence and theoretical approaches, and suggests models which could explain socio-cultural change through ritual failure. The concept of 'ritual failure' is also often used to better understand other themes, such as identity and wider social, economic and political transformations, shedding light on the social conditions that forced or introduced change. This book will engage those interested in ritual theory and practices, but will also appeal to those interested in exploring new avenues to understanding cultural change. From transformations in the use of ritual objects to the risks inherent in practicing ritual, from ritual continuity in customs to sudden and profound change, from the Neolithic Near East to Roman Europe and Iron Age Africa, this book explores what happens when ritual fails.Contents:IntroductionVasiliki G. Koutrafouri and Jeff SandersForeword: Introductory Thoughts on the Theme of 'Ritual Failure. Archaeological Perspectives'.by Timothy InsollThe Passage of Matter: Transformations of Objects and Ritual Meanings in the Neolithic of the Near East.Marc VerhoevenThe sky almost never falls on your head - why ritual rarely fails Jeff SandersRitual Failure in the Business Records of Mesopotamian TemplesMichael KozuhRitual Failure and the Temple collapse of prehistoric Malta.Caroline Malone and Simon StoddartFrom wells to pillars, and from pillars to. Ritual systems transformation and collapse in the early prehistory of CyprusVasiliki G. KoutrafouriWhen Ancestors become Gods: The Transformation of Cypriote Ritual and Religion in the Late Bronze AgeDavid CollardColonial Entanglements and Cultic Heterogeneity on Rome's Germanic FrontierKarim MataThe Dead Acrobat: Managing Risk and Minoan IconographyEvangelos KyriakidisDiscussion: Defining momentsby Richard Bradley.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region's archaeological heritage. The geopolitical and cultural diversity of the Caribbean, the general lack of awareness of island histories and multiple stakeholders involved in the preservation process, have in many cases slowed down the effective enforcement of regulations and heritage legislation. The development of archaeological heritage management (AHM) in the Dutch Caribbean islands started slowly in the early years of their semi-autonomy within the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1954 onwards. With the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao and St. Martin obtained a more autonomous status within the Kingdom, similar to Aruba has since 1986. Simultaneously, Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius became special overseas municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Consequently, these islands now fall under Dutch regulations for cultural resource management. Irrespective of these geopolitical changes, AHM has been developing on the six islands over the past 25 years, partly because of the active role of localized island-specific archaeological institutions. This volume provides a background to the history of archaeological research in the Dutch Caribbean and compiles a number of compliance archaeology projects that have been carried out under and in the spirit of the Valetta Treaty. In addition, with its discussion of the successful creation of localized community-based archaeological heritage associations serving as an excellent model for other island communities in the Caribbean, this volume represents a unique contribution to AHM in a wider regional perspective. This publication is part of the Taboui Caribbean Archaeology Series.

Zustand: New. While terrestrial archaeology has engaged with contemporary philosophy, maritime archaeology has remained in comparative disciplinary - or subdisciplinary - isolation. However, the issues that humans face in the Anthropocene - from global warming to global .

Zustand: New. The first comprehensive study of Polynesian barkcloth.Barkcloth or tapa, a cloth made from the inner bark of trees, was widely used in place of woven cloth in the Pacific islands until the 19th century. A ubiquitous material, it was integral to the live.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba's ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial period. This is accomplished by understanding the dialectics, or inseparable relationships, between Saba's geography, locally-situated ideologies of class, race, and gender in Saba's social environment, and the processes behind these ideological relations that contributed to the material things that are found across Saba's social landscape.This provides insights into archaeologies of poverty, approaches towards differentiating between low class and slavery in the archaeological record, and the importance of powered perspectives in defining and situating poverty on local and regional scales.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 356 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region's archaeological heritage.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate religious 'space' and 'place' in the Early Medieval World.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 428 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book presents a historical archaeological study of the saltpans in the Venezuelan Caribbean from the 17th to the late 19th centuries.

Zustand: New. Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place o.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 274 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called ¿amulets,¿ from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small carvings of spirit beings perforated for suspension against the body. The data are drawn from new photographs, measurements, and observations of 535 specimens compiled by the author during 2011-2018 in research visits to 34 museums and private collections in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. In analyzing this corpus, the author documents high stylistic diversity within the region, naming nine new figure pendant styles and situating these in space and time. This high diversity of local styles and subject matter suggests a previously undocumented religious pluralism in the ancient Caribbean, in accord with emergent understandings of cultural and political diversity within the region. The author finds that the subject matter of figure pendants is unconnected with elite cohoba spiritualism as documented ethnohistorically, which leads to a search for what the phenomenon represents socially and religiously. Figure pendants generally are far more common than the paraphernalia of cohoba, probably documenting the existence of a religious institution existing at the village level. The author hypothesizes that they were commissioned from pendant carvers by initiates of secret societies dedicated to healing or warfare. In this scenario, the supernatural subjects of the pendants were the patrons of regional sodalities with distinct histories. The book is intended for readers with interests in the indigenous art, religion and society of the ancient Caribbean and more broadly, Latin America. Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Orientation 2. The Puerto Plata Style 3. Sequencing the Puerto Plata Style 4. The Yaguajay Style 5. The Madre Vieja Style 6. The Comendador Style 7. The Cibao Style 8. The Luquillo Style 9. Imbert and Related Styles 10. Miniatures: La Caleta, Altagracia, and Other Styles 11. Same Subjects, Additional Styles 12. Comparisons 13. Conclusions Bibliography Appendix: Figure Pendants in the Database and in the Sala de Arte Pre-Hispánico.

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 436 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Water & Heritage . tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this heritage faces, along with possible solutions. Reflecting the depth of cooperation between UNESCO and ICOMOS, this book was launched . as a showcase of cooper.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 436 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Water & Heritage . tells the story of water heritage in all its diversity. It reveals the technical ingenuity that water heritage has always inspired, and it presents the challenges that this heritage faces, along with possible solutions. Reflecting the depth of cooperation between UNESCO and ICOMOS, this book was launched . as a showcase of cooper.