 Purchase this book from amazon.co.uk Evangelos Kyriakidis completed his doctorate on ritual theory in the University of Cambridge and is Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Kent. His research interests include ritual theory, the archaeology of individuals in Mycenaean bureaucracy, and Minoan miniature iconography. | Ritual in the Bronze Age Aegean
The Minoan Peak SanctuariesE Kyriakidis ‘a useful interpretative framework for understanding and recognising ritual that should provoke much debate’ Timothy Howe, Scholia Reviews ‘a sophisticated and subtle discussion of ritual, which draws on a wide variety of work’ John F. Cherry, Brown University Ritual is a fascinating subject, with a tendency to set the imagination racing and raise expectations for exciting treatment. Minoan archaeology and more particularly the so-called ‘peak sanctuaries’ have been the object of much interest and speculation, but also of considerable creative research. In this book Evangelos Kyriakidis rigorously assesses old and new ideas about these sanctuaries, testing and enriching such ideas by connecting them with the extant material and underpinning them with a solid theoretical basis. General theoretical issues such as the attribution of ritual value to a prehistoric activity, the assessment of degrees of ritual establishment and the creation of ritual institutions are developed with the peak sanctuary material in mind. The results are then compared and contrasted to other studies on the social and political dynamics of Minoan Crete, providing a new insight into ritual in the area as a whole. |
