Material Culture And Sacred Landscape
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Material Culture And Sacred Landscape
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Author : Peter Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2003-03-12
Material Culture And Sacred Landscape written by Peter Jordan and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-12 with Religion categories.
Study of the Khanty pastoralists of Siberia and their use of sacred landscapes.
Rock Art And Sacred Landscapes
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Author : Donna L. Gillette
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-10-16
Rock Art And Sacred Landscapes written by Donna L. Gillette and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-16 with Social Science categories.
Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.
Material Culture And Sacred Landscape
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Author : Peter Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2003
Material Culture And Sacred Landscape written by Peter Jordan and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Religion categories.
This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
Landscape And Culture In Northern Eurasia
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Author : Peter Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Landscape And Culture In Northern Eurasia written by Peter Jordan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Nature categories.
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic ‘thick description’ to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased international collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.
Sacred Landscapes And Cultural Politics
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Author : Philip P. Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2001
Sacred Landscapes And Cultural Politics written by Philip P. Arnold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Nature categories.
How do people in different cultural worlds think about relationships with nature? How do religious ideas become formative of landscape? How can indigenous traditions inform current cultural debates? This book explores ways in which religious perceptions and cultural values affect our understandings of relationships with nature and our actions in and upon the environment. Drawing on sources in literature, sacred texts, intellectual history, oral traditions, rituals and anthropological practices, the authors speak of realities in and across world regions including Africa, India, Japan and the USA. Unwilling to reduce the power of symbolic, mythic and cosmological thought, the authors highlight the shifting, illusive and perplexing aspects of the relationship between cosmology and landscape. Examining the inter-penetration of religious, environmental, and economic realities, this book includes critically positioned voices of Indigenous people on the cultural politics of ecological recovery. The authors offer a significant contribution to contemporary debates in the study of religion, nature, indigeneity and the challenges to colonialism.
Religion Landscape And Material Culture In Pre Modern South Asia
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Author : Tilottama Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-02-10
Religion Landscape And Material Culture In Pre Modern South Asia written by Tilottama Mukherjee and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-10 with History categories.
This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century. The essays in the volume focus on understanding questions of premodern religion, material culture processes and their spatial and environmental contexts through a study of networks of commodities and cultural and religious landscapes. From the early history of coastal regions such as Gujarat and Bengal to material networks of political culture, from temples and their connection with maritime trade to the importance of landscape in influencing temple-building, from regions considered peripheral to mainstream historiography to the development of religious sects, this collection of articles maps the diverse networks and connections across regions and time. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, museum and heritage studies, religion, especially Hinduism, Sufism and Buddhism, and South Asian studies.
Religion Material Culture And Archaeology
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Author : Julian Droogan
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-11-22
Religion Material Culture And Archaeology written by Julian Droogan and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with Religion categories.
Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion. By drawing on the field of archaeological theory and method, the relationship between religion and material culture is explored. It is argued that the material elements of religious life have been largely neglected by the discipline of religious studies, while at the same time religion has been traditionally seen as problematic for archaeologists. Why do we not talk of the discipline of the archaeology of religion, in the same way we do the anthropology of religion, or the sociology of religion? The volume considers the historical problems of approaching the material elements of religious life and bridges the methodological gap between religious studies and archaeology by proposing a new way of understanding the materiality of religion – as active, engaged and projecting a level of autonomous social agency. Finally, the critical examination of archaeological approaches to the materiality of religion is furthered through the consideration of non-archaeological ways of examining the social roles that material culture plays in human life.
Technology As Human Social Tradition
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Author : Peter Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-11-06
Technology As Human Social Tradition written by Peter Jordan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with Social Science categories.
"This book examines three interlocking topics that are central to all archaeological and anthropological inquiry: the role of technology in human existence; the reproduction of social traditions; the factors that generate cultural diversity and change. The overall aim is to outline a new kind of approach for researching variability and transformation in human material culture, and the main argument is that these technological traditions exhibit heritable continuity: they consist of information stored in human brains and then passed onto others through social learning. Technological traditions can therefore be understood as manifestations of a complex transmission system, and applying this new perspective to human material culture builds on, but also largely transcends, much of the earlier work conducted by archaeologists and anthropologists into the significance, function and social meanings associated with tools, objects and vernacular architecture"--
Space Place And Religious Landscapes
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Author : Darrelyn Gunzburg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-01
Space Place And Religious Landscapes written by Darrelyn Gunzburg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and South America, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. The book fuses ideas of space, place and material religion with cultural environmentalism and takes an interconnected approach to material religio-landscapes. In this way it fills the gap between lived religious traditions, personal reflection, phenomenology, historical context, environmental philosophy, myths and performativity. In defining material religion as active engagement with mountain-forming and humanshaping landscapes, the research and ideas presented here provide theories that are widely applicable to other forms of material religion.
Holy Ground
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Author : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Holy Ground written by Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Archaeology categories.