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    Headhunting and the body in Iron Age Europe (2012)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139016971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 259 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Headhunters / Europe ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Europe ; Human remains (Archaeology) / Europe ; Rites and ceremonies / Europe ; Violence / Europe ; Iron age / Europe ; Kopf ; Verehrung ; Kopfjäger ; Eisenzeit ; Europa ; Europe / Social life and customs ; Europe / Religious life and customs ; Europa ; Europa ; Eisenzeit ; Kopfjäger ; Kopf ; Verehrung
    Abstract: Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide 'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Detached fragments of humanity -- 2. A remarkable spiritual continuity? -- 3. Shamans on the march -- 4. Pillars, heads, and corn -- 5. Neither this world, nor the next -- 6. From the dead to the living -- 7. Gods and monsters -- 8. Bodies of belief
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139016971
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    Observations on Popular Antiquities, Volume 2 : Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions (1813)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139094559
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource.
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Anthropology
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    DDC: 394
    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Holidays ; Folklore / Great Britain ; Christian antiquities ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social life and customs
    Abstract: John Brand (1744–1806), secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, first published his widely popular Observations on Popular Antiquities in 1777. This fascinating two-volume almanac of British superstitions and customs was in fact a heavily revised and annotated version of Henry Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares (1725). Volume 2 of Brand's almanac concerns the origins and practices of British customs and ceremonies including marriage customs, death rites, belief in fairies, witchcraft, omens, and divination. The volume also provides explanations for obscure but common phrases and expressions. Following the success of the book's initial reception, Brand continued to research English folklore with the intention of publishing fuller information. This two-volume version, published posthumously in 1813, was edited and expanded by Sir Henry Ellis, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and further revisions also appeared in 1841 and 1870. Brand's book is regarded as the foundation for folklore studies in England
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    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139094559
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