The sacred body : materializing the divine through human remains in antiquity / edited by Nicola Laneri.
The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living with the divine. This is clearly evident in the mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities among ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. Thus, par...
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2021.
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| Series: | Material religion in antiquity ;
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Table of Contents:
- The sacred body : introduction / Nicola Laneri
- Materializing what matters. Ritualized bodies from a time before text / Liv Nilsson Stutz
- Inscribing bodies in Bronze Age Cyprus / Louise Steel
- Manufacturing relics : the social construction of the 'sacred things' / Arianna Rotondo
- You're in or you're out : the inclusion or exclusion of sacred royal bodies in the tomb of the 21st Dynasty High Priests of Amen / Kathlyn Cooney
- Materializing the ancestors: sacred body parts and fragments in the ancient Near East / Melissa S. Cradic
- Modified bodies : an interpretation of social identity embedded into bones / Yilmaz Selim Erdal and Valentina D'Amico
- Feeding the divine. Body concepts and human sacrifice among the classic period Maya / Vera Tiesler and Erik Velásquez García.