Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States
Joanne M.A. Murphy, "Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States"
English | ISBN: 0367230267 | 2020 | 242 pages | EPUB, PDF | 19 MB + 96 MB
English | ISBN: 0367230267 | 2020 | 242 pages | EPUB, PDF | 19 MB + 96 MB
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state’s ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a culture-forming dynamic affected decline, collapse, and regeneration of the state.
Chapters examine ritual in collapsing and regenerating archaic states from diverse locations, time periods, and societies including Crete, Mycenean and Byzantine Greece, Mesopotamia, India, Africa, Mexico, and Peru. Underscoring similarities in a variety of archaic states in the role of ritual during periods of threat, collapse, and transformation, the volume shows how ritual can be used as a stabilizing or divisive force or a connecting medium between the present to the past in an empowering way. It also highlights the diversity of ritual roles and location in similar situations and illustrates how states in close proximity and sharing many cultural similarities can respond differently through ritual to stress and contrast the different response in rural and urban settings.
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