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Author(s): Richard Bradley
ISBN(s): 9780415345514, 0415345510
Edition: New edition
File Details: PDF, 2.66 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415345510 
ISBN 13: 9780415345514
Author: Richard Bradley

This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the way in which different features of the domestic world were played out until they took on qualities of theatrical performance.With extensive illustrated case-studies, this book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, all of which were ritualized in prehistoric Europe. Successive chapters discuss the ways in which ritual has been studied, drawing on a series of examples that range from Greece to Norway and from Romania to Portugal. They consider practices that extend from the Mesolithic period to the Early Middle Ages and discuss the ways in which ritual and domestic life were intertwined.

Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe 1st Table of contents:

PART I The importance of ordinary things
1 Death and the harvest: how archaeologists have distinguished between ritual and domestic life
2 The consecration of the house: how domestic buildings took on special qualities
3 A duty of care: how everyday activities assumed a special significance
PART II Where the stress falls
4 A house with a pool: rituals and the materials of farming
5 Multiplication and division: the problem of utilitarian bronze hoards
6 The rites of separation: domestic rituals and public ritual in the Iron Age
7 What remains to be seen: some implications of the argument

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