Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East

Informationen zum Autor Joy McCorriston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. She has published forty academic articles and book chapters on the origins of food production, the development of agricultural economies through the Bronze Age and Southern Arabian prehistory. She currently leads the Ancient Human Social Dynamics in Arabia Project in Oman. Klappentext Examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East by focusing on the traditions of pilgrimage and household. Zusammenfassung Joy McCorriston defines the essential characteristics of ancient household and pilgrimage and emphasizes the critical role they played in enabling and developing socioeconomic transactions. Her conclusions tie together broader theoretical implications generated by the study of the two phenomena and offer a new paradigm for archaeological study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Why pilgrimage?; 3. Pilgrimage practice in Arabian antiquity; 4. The cattle shrine at Kheshiya and the origins of pilgrimage societies; 5. Household practice in Mesopotamian antiquity; 6. Neolithic houses and the scales of social practice; 7. Landscape as habitus and the tempo of social practice; 8. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Joy McCorriston, Joy (Dr Mccorriston, McCorriston Joy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521768511
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76851-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology