Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life पीडीएफ

इयान होडर स्टैनफोर्ड विश्वविद्यालय में पुरातत्व के डनलवी परिवार के प्रोफेसर हैं। ब्रिटिश अकादमी के एक फेलो, उन्होंने अपनी उपलब्धियों के लिए कई पुरस्कार प्राप्त किए हैं, जिसमें स्वीडिश सोसाइटी ऑफ एंटिकरीज से ऑस्कर मॉन्टेलियस मेडल, रॉयल एंथ्रोपोलॉजिकल इंस्टीट्यूट द्वारा हक्सले मेमोरियल मेडल, फिसेन इंटरनेशनल प्राइज और पुरातत्व द्वारा स्वर्ण पदक शामिल हैं। अमेरिका के संस्थान, ब्रिस्टल और लीडेन विश्वविद्यालयों से मानद डॉक्टरेट के साथ। होडर कई पुस्तकों के लेखक हैं, जिनमें सिंबल इन एक्शन (कैम्ब्रिज, 1982), रीडिंग द पास्ट (कैम्ब्रिज, 1982), और एंटांगल्ड: एन आर्कियोलॉजी ऑफ द रिलेशनशिप्स बिच ह्यूमन एंड थिंग्स (2012) शामिल हैं।

Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life पीडीएफ इयान होडर

This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East, focusing on the repetitive construction of houses or cult buildings in the same place. Prominent archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religion working at several of the region’s most important sites—such as Çatalhöyük, Göbekli Tepe, Körtik Tepe, and Aşıklı Höyük—contend that religious factors significantly affected the timing and stability of settled economic structures. Contributors argue that the long-term social relationships characteristic of delayed-return agricultural systems must be based on historical ties to place and to ancestors. They define different forms of history-making, including nondiscursive routinized practices as well as commemorative memorialization. They consider the timing in the Neolithic of an emerging concern with history-making in place in relation to the adoption of farming and settled life in regional sequences. They explore whether such correlations indicate the causal processes in which history-making, ritual practices, agricultural intensification, population increase, and social competition all played a role. Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life takes a major step forward in understanding the adoption of farming and a settled way of life in the Middle East by foregrounding the roles of history-making and religious ritual. This work is relevant to students and scholars of Near Eastern archaeology, as well as those interested in the origins of agriculture and social complexity or the social role of religion in the past.