| Archaeology Experiences Spirituality? Contributor(s): Gheorghiu, Dragoåy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443833681 ISBN-13: 9781443833684 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| LCCN: 2012379985 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.1" (1.00 lbs) 225 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book's aim is to go beyond the limits of the contemporary scientific paradigm of material culture by presenting some of the issues confronting archaeology, as it attempts to approach the spirituality of the past. It brings together archaeologists from Western and Eastern Europe, and the USA who, more or less obviously, have used their experientiality to approach the world view and mystic experience of ancient peoples. The book intends to present several arguments in support of an archaeology of spirituality through a series of seven case studies. What method should we use to approach spirituality? Are we still dependent on quantitative methods? Is phenomenology an appropriate instrument? Can experientiality approach a spiritual experience? Is the emic approach efficient enough to approach the spiritual side of a studied phenomenon? Are the analogous ethnographic models suitable instruments for this task? How much of the spirituality of the past is still accessible today? Could we build artificial contexts that would allow the recreation of the phenomenological condition analogous to the originals? Archaeology Experiences Spirituality? goes beyond the archaeological study of material culture, offering a fascinating lecture for the reader of the twenty-first century. |