Sacred darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves / / edited by Holley Moyes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463671403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2013
• ISBN: 1-4571-1750-9; 1-60732-178-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MoyesHolley
• Disciplina: 203/.5
• Soggetti: Anthropology of religion; Caves; Caves - Religious aspects; Ritual; Sacred space; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Note on Radiocarbon Dating""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Old World Ritual Cave Traditions""; ""1. Ritual Cave Use in European Paleolithic Caves""; ""2. Constructed Caves""; ""3. Caves of the Living, Caves of the Dead""; ""4. Landscapes of Ritual, Identity, and Memory""; ""5. Caves and the Funerary Landscape of Prehistoric Britain""; ""6. The Subterranean Landscape of the Southern Levant during the Chalcolithic Period""; ""7. The Chamber of Secrets""; ""8. Caves as Sacred Spaces on the Tibetan Plateau""; ""9. Differential Australian Cave and Rockshelter Use during the Pleistocene and Holocene""""Part II: New World Ritual Cave Traditions""; ""10. Caves as Sacred Space in Mesoamerica""; ""11. Footsteps in the Dark Zone""; ""12. Forty Yearsâ€? Pursuit of Human Prehistory in the World Underground""; ""13. A New Overview of Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeast""; ""14. Reevaluating Cave Records""; ""15. Ceremonial Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ohio""; ""16. The Ritual Use of Caves and Rockshelters in Ozark Prehistory""; ""Part III: Case Studies in Ritual ; Cave Use""; ""17. The Prehistoric Funerary Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo)""""18. Recognizing Ritual in the Dark""; ""19. Sacred Spaces, Sacred Species""; ""20. Ritual Cave Use in the Bahamas""; ""Part IV: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Studies""; ""21. Caves in Ireland""; ""22. Caves in Black and White""; ""23. Where the Wild Things Are""; ""24. Ritual Uses of Caves in West Malaysia""; ""25. A Quantitative Literature Survey Regarding the Uses and Perceptions of Caves among Nine Indigenous Andean Societies""; ""26. Caves and Related Sites in the Great Plains of North America""; ""Part V: New Approaches""""27. Civilizing the Cave Man""; ""28. Caves and Spatial Constraint""; ""29. Why Dark Zones Are Sacred""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""