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Divine Consumption : Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West
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- Book Title
- Divine Consumption : Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Anc
- Subject
- Archaeology, Ancient / General, Africa / West, Anthropology / General
- ISBN
- 9781950446278
- Series
- Monumenta Archaeologica Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Divine Consumption : Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa
- Publisher
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
- Item Weight
- 38.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 306 Pages
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Kirikongo is an archaeological site composed of thirteen remarkably well-preserved discrete mounds occupied continually from the early first to the mid second millennium AD. It spans a dynamic era that saw the growth of large settlement communities and regional socio-political formations, development of economic specializations, intensification in interregional commercial networks, and the effects of the Black Death pandemic. The extraordinary preservation of architectural units, activity areas and industrial zones provides a unique opportunity to discern the cultural practices that created stratified mounds (tells) in this part of West Africa. Building from a new detailed zooarchaeological analysis and refinements in stratigraphic precision, this book argues that repeated ritual activity was a significant factor in the accumulation of stratified archaeological deposits. The book details consistencies in form and content of discrete loci containing animal bones, food remains, and broken and unbroken objects and suggests that these are the remnants of sequential ancestor shrines created when domestic spaces were converted to tombs or dedicated mortuary monuments were constructed. Continuities and transformations in ancestral rituals at Kirikongo inform on earlier West African ritual practices from the second millennium BC as well as political and social transformations at the site. More broadly, this case study provides new insights on anthropogenic mound (tell) formation processes, social zooarchaeology, material culture theory, historical ontology, and the analysis of ritual and religion in the archaeological record.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
ISBN-10
1950446271
ISBN-13
9781950446278
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6057287950
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Divine Consumption : Sacrifice, Alliance Building, and Making Ancestors in West Africa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Ancient / General, Africa / West, Anthropology / General
Series
Monumenta Archaeologica Ser.
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
306 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
38.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2021-057192
Series Volume Number
48
Lc Classification Number
Gn473.4.D84 2022
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Archaeology and Sacrifice in Central West Africa Chapter 2. Kirikongo in Historical and Social Context Chapter 3. Archaeology of Animals in West Africa Chapter 4. The Animals of Kirikongo Chapter 5. Depositional Contexts and Relational Associations Chapter 6. Divine Consumption: Feasts, Sacrifice, and Societal Transformation Chapter 7. Emplacing Ancestors: Enabling Co-Presence through Material Sacrifice and Rituals of Attachment/Detachment Chapter 8. Sacrificing Animals, Objects, and Houses: Toward and Archaeology of Attachment and Detachment
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
966.25
Dewey Edition
23
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