Table of Contents

Contributors     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
In Search of Ritual   Evangelos Kyriakidis     1
Finding Ritual: Calibrating the Evidence   Evangelos Kyriakidis     9
History, Ethnography, and Essentialism: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual in South Asia   Lars Fogelin     23
Rethinking Ritual   Joyce Marcus     43
Archaeological Andean Rituals: Performance, Liturgy, and Meaning   Christine A. Hastorf     77
The Archaeology of Ritual, of Cult, and of Religion   Colin Renfrew     109
Living Ritual and Indigenous Archaeology: The Case of Zimbabwe   Terence Ranger     123
The Reinvention of Odissi Classical Dance as a Temple Ritual   Alessandra Lopez y Royo     155
Ritualized Technologies in the Aegean Neolithic? The Crafts of Adornment   Marianna Nikolaidou     183
Cognition, Religious Ritual, and Archaeology   Robert N. McCauley   E. Thomas Lawson     209
Sacrifice And Ritualization   Caroline Humphrey   James Laidlaw     255
Response: Defining the Need for a Definition   Catherine Bell     277
Archaeologies of Ritual   Evangelos Kyriakidis     289
Index     309