Sacred darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves / / edited by Holley Moyes
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Sacred darkness [[electronic resource] ] : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves / / edited by Holley Moyes
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (431 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 203/.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anthropology of religion |
| Caves | |
| Caves - Religious aspects | |
| Ritual | |
| Sacred space | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
MoyesHolley
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| 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 Years� 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"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sacred darkness |
| ISBN: | 1-4571-1750-9 |
| 1-60732-178-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463671403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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