Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies

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Edited by Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge, Iain Morley, University of Oxford, Michael Boyd, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781316534663
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534663

Subjects:: Prehistory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Anthropology

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The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of the first complex societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times until the development of early religion in the Near East, in China, in Peru, in Mesoamerica and beyond. Here, leading prehistorians and other specialists bring a fresh approach to the early practices that underlie the faiths and religions of the world. They demonstrate the profound role of play ritual and belief systems and offer powerful new insights into the emergence of early civilization.

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Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies
pp i-ii

Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-x

Notes on the Contributors
pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

1 - Introducing Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies
pp 1-8

2 - Introduction: Play as the Precursor of Ritual in Early Human Societies
pp 9-20

Part I - Play and Ritual: Forms, Foundations and Evolution in Animals and Humans
pp 21-98

3 - The Origins, Evolution and Interconnections of Play and Ritual: Setting the Stage
pp 23-39

4 - Play and Creativity
pp 40-52

5 - Pretend and Socio-dramatic Play in Evolutionary and Developmental Perspective
pp 53-65

6 - Pretend Play, Cognition and Life-History in Human Evolution
pp 66-86

7 - From Play and Ritualisation to Ritual and Its Arts: Sources of Upper Pleistocene Ritual Practices in Lower Middle Pleistocene Ritualised and Play Behaviours in Ancestral Hominins
pp 87-98

Part II - Playing with Belief and Performance in Ancient Societies
pp 99-208

8 - Maya Sacred Play: The View from El Perú-Waka’
pp 101-115

9 - Communal Performance and Ritual Practice in the Ancestral Puebloan Era of the American Southwest
pp 116-128

10 - Architecture and Imagery in the Early Neolithic of South-West Asia: Framing Rituals, Stabilising Meanings
pp 129-142

11 - Dancing with Masks in the Proto-historic Near East
pp 143-169

12 - Ritual, Mimesis and the Animal World in Early China
pp 170-186

13 - Manipulating the Bones: Eating and Augury in the Maltese Temples
pp 187-208

Part III - The Ritual in the Game, the Game in the Ritual
pp 209-308

14 - Play, Ritual and Transformation: Sports, Animals and Manhood in Egyptian and Aegean Art
pp 211-236

15 - Bull Games in Minoan Crete: Social and Symbolic Dimensions
pp 237-249

16 - Epic Games
pp 250-263

17 - The Ballgame, Boxing and Ritual Blood Sport in Ancient Mesoamerica
pp 264-301

18 - Rituals, Games and Learning
pp 302-308

Part IV - From Play to Faith? Discussion
pp 309-332

19 - Play and Ritual: Some Thoughts from a Material-Culture Perspective
pp 311-315

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