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Cambridge University Press Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük

Name: Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Catalhoyuk
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Ancient History & Civilisation

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This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of René Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1108476023
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation
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Release Date: 14 March 2019
Listed Since: 30 September 2018

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