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15 - Bull Games in Minoan Crete: Social and Symbolic Dimensions

from Part III - The Ritual in the Game, the Game in the Ritual

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

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Nanno Marinatos
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Colin Renfrew ,
Iain Morley  and
Michael Boyd
Colin Renfrew
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University of Cambridge
Iain Morley
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Michael Boyd
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies , pp. 237 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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