ISBN:
9780521877565
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (274 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HEADHUNTING AND THE BODY IN IRON AGE EUROPE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations and tables; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Detached fragments of humanity; Introduction; Midden bones; Trophies and offerings; Interpretations; Some definitions; Headhunting; Head veneration; Cosmology, religion, ideology; Ritual violence; From here on .....; CHAPTER 2 A remarkable spiritual continuity?; The cult of the head; The classical literary tradition; The Irish and Welsh literary traditions; The pan-Celtic head cult; Heads without Celts, Celts without heads?
Description / Table of Contents:
Cypriot heroes and African giantsThe 'Celto-sceptic' backlash; Using the literature; CHAPTER 3 Shamans on the march; From Rum to Riyadh; The savage blot; Encounters with headhunters; The search for 'soul-substance'; Heads and fertility; Grief, rage, and rites of passage; Headhunting and social power; Physical traces; Recurrent themes: A headhunting grammar?; CHAPTER 4 Pillars, heads, and corn; Phallic stones and monkey bones; Iron Age encounters in southern France; Greeks, Celts, and Ligurians in the French Midi; The 'Hellenisation' question; Art, influence, and the problem of chronology
Description / Table of Contents:
Human debrisPattern and purpose; Saint-Michel-de-Valbonne; Entremont; Badasset; Chronology and context; Heads and fertility; Skull trees and trophies; The sickle and the sword; Analogous objects; Above and below; Conclusion: Harvesting heads; CHAPTER 5 Neither this world, nor the next; Betwixt and between; Strewn with bones; Unravelling the Sculptor's Cave; The mouth of Hell?; Porticos, pillars, and severed heads: Roquepertuse and beyond; Discovering Roquepertuse; The early sanctuary; The monumental sanctuary; Animal bodies, human heads; Collecting skulls; The shock of the new; Iconoclasm
Description / Table of Contents:
The afterlife of RoquepertuseHeads and sanctuaries; Return to Entremont; An enduring iconography; Image and reality; Conclusion: Fertility to efficacy; CHAPTER 6 From the dead to the living; My head belongs to the king; The Saluvii and their neighbours; Heads and houses; Entremont; The warriors; The women of Entremont; Naming the dead; The 'museum' of heads; Iconoclasm and transformation; Terror and abasement; Coins and heads; The northern sanctuaries; Conclusion: Heads and power; CHAPTER 7 Gods and monsters; The boy below the floor; Human bodies, animal bodies
Description / Table of Contents:
People and animals in southern FranceInhabiting the leopard; Fighters into beasts: The Tarasque of Noves; Medicine, muti, and the spiritual anatomy; Conclusion: Fragmentation and identity; CHAPTER 8 Bodies of belief; A cult of the head?; Iron Age bodies; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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