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

伊恩·霍德 (Ian Hodder) 是斯坦福大学邓利维家族考古学教授。 作为英国科学院院士，他因其成就获得了无数奖项，包括瑞典古物学会颁发的奥斯卡蒙特利乌斯奖章、皇家人类学研究所颁发的赫胥黎纪念奖章、菲森国际奖和考古学协会颁发的金质奖章。 美国研究所，以及布里斯托大学和莱顿大学的名誉博士学位。 霍德是许多书籍的作者，包括行动中的符号（剑桥，1982 年）、阅读过去（剑桥，1982 年）和纠缠：人类与事物之间关系的考古学（2012 年）。

Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life pdf 伊恩·霍德

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.