Book contents
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Frontispiece
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Violence and the Sacred
- Part III The Dialectics of Mimesis
- 7 Mimetic Theory, the Wall Paintings, and the Domestication, De-domestication, and Sacrifice of Cattle at Çatalhöyük
- 8 The Ordeal of the Town
- 9 Stretching Girard’s Hypothesis
- 10 Girard’s Anthropology vs. Cognitive Archaeology
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
8 - The Ordeal of the Town
Rites and Symbols at Çatalhöyük
from Part III - The Dialectics of Mimesis
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Book contents
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Frontispiece
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Violence and the Sacred
- Part III The Dialectics of Mimesis
- 7 Mimetic Theory, the Wall Paintings, and the Domestication, De-domestication, and Sacrifice of Cattle at Çatalhöyük
- 8 The Ordeal of the Town
- 9 Stretching Girard’s Hypothesis
- 10 Girard’s Anthropology vs. Cognitive Archaeology
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near EastGirardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, pp. 165 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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