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Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments
Jenny Blain
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Description for Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments
Paperback. Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain. This book examines interfaces between paganisms and archaeology, considering the emergence of 'sacred sites' in pagan and heritage discourse and implications of pagan involvement for heritage management, archaeology, anthropology - and for pagans themselves. Num Pages: 252 pages, 35+ b/w photos. BIC Classification: HD; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain today. Pagan identities and constructions of sacredness contest assumptions of a 'closed' past and untouchable heritage, within a socio-politics in which prehistoric archaeology -- the stone circles, burial cairns and rock art of the British Isles -- is itself subject to political and economic threats. Pagans see prehistoric monuments in a living, enchanted landscape of deities, ancestors, spirits, 'wights' and other non-human agencies engaged with for personal and community empowerment. From all areas of Britain and indeed worldwide, people come to sacred sites of prehistory to make pilgrimage, befriend ... Read more
Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain today. Pagan identities and constructions of sacredness contest assumptions of a 'closed' past and untouchable heritage, within a socio-politics in which prehistoric archaeology -- the stone circles, burial cairns and rock art of the British Isles -- is itself subject to political and economic threats. Pagans see prehistoric monuments in a living, enchanted landscape of deities, ancestors, spirits, 'wights' and other non-human agencies engaged with for personal and community empowerment. From all areas of Britain and indeed worldwide, people come to sacred sites of prehistory to make pilgrimage, befriend ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191306
SKU
V9781845191306
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99-15
Reviews for Sacred Sites - Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments
"(This Book) seeks to fill a lacuna in the academic study of alternative interests in archaeological sites.
The authors stress that sacredness is constituted within discourse, that landscape and all its components have agency, and that for dialogue to occur, everyone involved must abandon the idea of a single truth. This is an important and highly recommended book."
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The authors stress that sacredness is constituted within discourse, that landscape and all its components have agency, and that for dialogue to occur, everyone involved must abandon the idea of a single truth. This is an important and highly recommended book."
... Read more