Religion in the Emergence of Civilization pdf

Ian Hodder est professeur d'archéologie de la famille Dunleavie à l'Université de Stanford. Membre de la British Academy, il a reçu de nombreux prix pour ses réalisations, dont la médaille Oscar Montelius de la Société suédoise des antiquaires, la médaille commémorative Huxley du Royal Anthropological Institute, le prix international Fyssen et la médaille d'or de l'Archaeological Institute of America, ainsi que des doctorats honorifiques des universités de Bristol et de Leiden. Hodder est l'auteur de nombreux livres, dont Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) et Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Religion in the Emergence of Civilization pdf par Ian Hodder

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines ?atalh?y?k as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, ?atalh?y?k was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from ?atalh?y?k within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East.