Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien
Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte
By (author) Birgit Öhlinger
Hardback (Published)
(February 2016)
ISBN: 9783954901524
8.31 x 11.69 inches
Price: $132.00
In stock
This work centres on the detailed examination of inland ritual sites dating from the Archaic period in Sicily (late 8th to early 5th centuries BC), which is based on an emic perspective of the indigenous people. It aims to offer a nuanced analysis of local ritual sites by tracing the diverse formation and transformation processes on the basis of a selection of case studies. The indigenous cult sites are examined within the appropriate settlement contexts from the point of view of sociology of religion and social archaeology in order to gain new insight into how such sites functioned and what social structures and local identities were associated with each site. <br/>
Der vierte Band der Reihe Italika widmet sich der kultisch-religiosen Lebenswelt der indigenen Gesellschaften des archaischen Siziliens. Durch einen innovativen religionssoziologischen und sozialarchaologischen Ansatz werden neuartige Einblicke in die Kultlandschaften der lokalen Gemeinschaften ermoglicht. Anhand von 16 ausgewahlten Fallbeispielen werden zentrale Kult- und Ritualorte in ihrem jeweiligen Siedlungskontext untersucht und deren Formations- und Transformationsprozesse im Spannungsfeld kultureller Kontakte nachgezeichnet, die sich im Zuge der sogenannten grossen Kolonisation der Griechen und Phonizier ab dem 8. Jh. v. Chr. zwangslaufig ergaben. Besonders ab dem 6. Jh. v. Chr. entstanden teils dichte Kontaktzonen, deren Auswirkungen auf die lokale Kultarchitektur und Opferpraxis beleuchtet werden. Im Zentrum der Studie stehen Fragen nach der Funktion von indigenen Kultorten und der daran gekoppelten sozialen Strukturen und lokalen Identitaten sowie das Aufzeigen von Interdependenzen zwischen Religionsentwicklung und sozialem Wandel.
Birgit Öhlinger, born in 1983, studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Egyptology in Innsbruck and Vienna. 2014 she received her doctorate in Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeologies at the University of Innsbruck, where she is currently working as assistant professor. Since 2011 she, together with Prof. Erich Kistler, is directing excavations at Monte Iato, an indigenous hill-top settlement in western Sicily. Her research focuses on the pre-Roman Mediterranean and explores cultural contacts and transmediterranean flows. Another focus is on religion and ritual and their material expressions in the archaeological record with emphasis on Sicily.<br/>
- By (author) Birgit Öhlinger
In her in-depth study of the rich archaelogical record of ritual contexts of inland settlements of Archaic Sicily, submitted as PhD thesis to the Universitz of insbruck, the author of this prize-winning book takes an explicit methodological approach towards her subject in the vein of Anthony F. C. Wallace’s definition of ritual as ‘religion in action’ as expounded in his “Religion. An Anthropological View” (New York 1966) {...}<br/>This book is a must for all those who engage in the archaeological study of ‘Religion in Action’. <br/><br/>Von Peter Attema<br/><br/>In Germania 96, 2018, S. 307-311<br/>---------------------<br/>„Ritual und Religion in archaischen Sizilien1 publishes Birgit Öhlinger’s Innsbruck dissertation<br/>(appropriately, it has cultural contact in its subtitle), examining inland indigenous<br/>ritual sites from a sociological and archaeological perspective: deeper understanding of religion<br/>and ritual is directly linked to a better understanding of predominant social structure,<br/>and, in a socio-religious approach, religion, economy, politics and family are among the<br/>many sub-systems that partake of reciprocal relationships. (...) Handsomely produced in large format with many<br/>high-quality illustrations.“<br/><br/>Von G.R. Tsetskhladze<br/>In Ancient West & East Vol. 18 (2019), S. 302
—
Other Titles in this Series
Bestattungsrituale in Unteritalien vom 5. bis 4. Jh. v. Chr.
Überlegungen zur sogenannten Samnitisierung Kampaniens
Bestattungssitten zwischen Tradition und Modifikation
Kulturelle Austauschprozesse in den griechischen Kolonien in Unteritalien und Sizilien vom 8. bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik
Die Kammergräber von Tarent
Untersuchungen zur Grabarchitektur und Ausstattung vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft im archaischen Süditalien
Ein Modell zu Identität und Hexis, ausgehend von Ripacandida und weiteren binnenländischen Gemeinschaften
Similar Books
A Companion to Christianity and Sport in Europe and North America (19th-21st centuries)
Volume 1: Western and Eastern Europe
A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Correspondence of Leo III and ʿUmar II
Volume 6
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
As Messianism Turns to Heresy
The Regenstein Chair Lectures On Lurianic Kabbalah and Shabbatai Tzevi at Hebrew Union College - Cincinnati
Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire
Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC
Volume 2
Construction Processes in Historical Western Societies (5th c. BC – 10th c. AD)
Case Studies on Techniques, Models, and Costs
Creating the Woman in Antiquity
Proceedings of the 16th Melammu Workshop, Innsbruck, 2–3 June 2022
Volume 13
Cultic Kisses
Fruitful Encounters Between Deities and Humans. Festschrift for Angelika Berlejung on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday
De/colonizing Theologies
Glocal Histories, Contemporary Challenges, Theoretical Reflections
Volume 4
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
