Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↑ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↑ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 67 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £95 (67 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £95 - £95

Price levels: 1 different prices over 67 days

Description

Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussion about ritual killing continue. This book offers contributions to this on-going discussion, by a re-evaluation of the term human sacrifice, arguing that not all forms of ritual killing can be considered to be sacrificial. Experts from different disciplines present new insights into the subject of ritual homicide in various regions of the ancient world. Various aspects of the phenomenon are discussed, such as offering humans to gods, making servants accompany their masters into the hereafter, and ritual killing in connection with execution of criminals and captives. While in some cultures ritual killing was accepted, others would consider it a symptom of barbarism and would use it as a reason or pretext for hostility, war, or genocide. Thus the Romans justified the violence against Carthage partly because of this, early Christians were accused of infanticide, while in turn they accused Jews of the same. The Spanish conquistadores used the argument to justify the genocide on indigenous Americans. The last chapter concerns one of the last surviving forms of ritual killing in recent history: headhunting among the Asmat.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 9464260572
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Egypt
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 May 2022
Listed Since: 01 December 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity: 25 (PALMA)

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Ethics in Healthcare

Religion and Violence

A Manual of Anthropology

Die Ethik der Griechen und Römer

Cleaning and Value: Interdisciplinary Investigations

Ritual in the Roman World: Approaches to Theory and Practices (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology)

Die Philosophie der Werte

Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate: Animals and Society in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northern France

Geschichte des Morgenlandes im Altertum

Digital Archaeology: Promises and Impasses: 51 (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia)

Human Values and Professional Ethics (Volume 2)- Part 2

Lithic Raw Materials in Prehistory: Methods, Practice and Theory

Health, Ritual, and Community in Ancient Greece

A Treatise on Human Physiology

A Manual of Mediaeval and Modern History

Ancient Civilizations of the World

Histoire du Moyen Age

Anthropologie culturelle

A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels: 50 (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia)

Kunstgeschichte des Alterthums

Kunstgeschichte des Alterthums

Magical, Mundane or Marginal?: Deposition Practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik Culture

The Philosophy and History of Civilisation

Strategy and Structures along the Roman Frontier: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

The Value of a Human Life: Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity: 25 (PALMA)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Ethics in Healthcare

Religion and Violence

A Manual of Anthropology

Die Ethik der Griechen und Römer

Cleaning and Value: Interdisciplinary Investigations

Ritual in the Roman World: Approaches to Theory and Practices (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology)

Die Philosophie der Werte

Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate: Animals and Society in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northern France

Geschichte des Morgenlandes im Altertum

Digital Archaeology: Promises and Impasses: 51 (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia)

Human Values and Professional Ethics (Volume 2)- Part 2

Lithic Raw Materials in Prehistory: Methods, Practice and Theory

Health, Ritual, and Community in Ancient Greece

A Treatise on Human Physiology

A Manual of Mediaeval and Modern History

Ancient Civilizations of the World

Histoire du Moyen Age

Anthropologie culturelle

A Human Environment: Studies in honour of 20 years Analecta editorship by prof. dr. Corrie Bakels: 50 (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia)

Kunstgeschichte des Alterthums

Kunstgeschichte des Alterthums

Magical, Mundane or Marginal?: Deposition Practices in the Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik Culture

The Philosophy and History of Civilisation

Strategy and Structures along the Roman Frontier: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 2