Joy McCorriston

Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East by focusing on the traditions of pilgrimage and household.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521768511
• ISBN-10: 0521768519
• Artikelnr.: 32559473

Autorenporträt

Joy McCorriston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. She has published forty academic articles and book chapters on the origins of food production, the development of agricultural economies through the Bronze Age and Southern Arabian prehistory. She currently leads the Ancient Human Social Dynamics in Arabia Project in Oman.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why pilgrimage?
3. Pilgrimage practice in Arabian antiquity
4. The cattle shrine at Kheshiya and the origins of pilgrimage societies
5. Household practice in Mesopotamian antiquity
6. Neolithic houses and the scales of social practice
7. Landscape as habitus and the tempo of social practice
8. Conclusions.