1st Edition
Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States
1. Ritual during periods of decline, collapse, and transformation in ancient states
Joanne M. A. Murphy
2. Old deities for new men: religious practices and societal transformation during the Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age transitional period on Crete
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen
3. Rituals and tombs during the radical transformation of the Pylian state
Joanne M. A. Murphy
4. The legacy of Byzantine Christianity in the southern Mani Peninsula, Greece, after imperial collapse
Rebecca M. Seifried
5. As Wari weakened: ritual transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru
Donna J. Nash and Patrick Ryan Williams
6. Ritual resilience and adaptation in the wake of political transformation at Dainzú, Oaxaca, Mexico
Ronald K. Faulseit, Dante García, Jeremias Pink, Gabrielle Alma López, and Carlos Rojas
7. Rejecting, reinventing, resituating: a diachronic perspective on ritual in the aftermath of Tiwanaku state collapse
Nicola Sharratt
8. Contextualizing the ritual phase in the evolution of eastern and southern African chiefdoms and states
Chapurukha M. Kusimba
9. Flux and continuity in monument-building traditions in south India
Srikumar M. Menon
10. Merit-making at ancient Bagan, Myanmar: the role of socio-spiritual and political-cultural entanglements in the rise and fall of a classical Southeast Asian state
Gyles Iannone and Michael Aung-Thwin
11. Scales and pathways of human politico-economic affiliation: the roles of ritual
Gary M. Feinman
Biography
Joanne M. A. Murphy is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her work focuses on the archaeology of ritual and death in Bronze Age Greece and has addressed these issues in both the early small-scale communities of Crete and the later states on the mainland.
"This book is a must-read for students of collapse. In viewing collapse through the important social, institutional, and political lens of ritual, it reveals a fruitful avenue for further research and for describing and explaining aspects of collapse. It is a lens that allows us to focus on various levels and parts of a society in collapse." – Guy D. Middleton, AJA
