Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe (Paperback)
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Short Description for Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe This study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. This book examines farming, craft production and the occupation of houses, which were all ritualized in prehistoric Europe.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 01 May 2005
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Archaeology | Archaeology By Period / Region
- ISBN 13: 9780415345514 ISBN 10: 0415345510
- Sales rank: 484,285
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Full description for Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe
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.
