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Indo-European Fire Rituals Anders Kaliff

Indo-European Fire Rituals By Anders Kaliff

Indo-European Fire Rituals by Anders Kaliff

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Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today's cremations on open pyres in Hinduism.

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Indo-European Fire Rituals: Cattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony by Anders Kaliff

This book

  • Explores Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices.

  • Analyzes fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards.

  • Asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology?

  • Has a broad interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography, folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.

About Anders Kaliff

Anders Kaliff is professor of archaeology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University. Kaliff's main academic expertise is Scandinavian Bronze and early Iron Age with special focus on interpretations of funerals, ritual practice and cosmology. He has a broad international experience with excavations and research projects, among other places, in Jordan and Estonia. Kaliff is a working member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy and the Nathan Soederblom Society.

Terje Oestigaard is Docent in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University, Sweden. He started his early career with fieldworks in Nepal, India and Bangladesh before working with water, life and death along the Nile River for many years. Throughout his research, he has had a particular focus on funerals and rituals, in general, and cremations and sacrifices, in particular. In recent years, he has also focused on the rich Nordic ethnography and how this links to broader Indo-European questions and historic development processes.

Table of Contents

1: Fire rituals and the Indo-European Heritage; 2: Hearts in hearths - ancestors and deities; 3: Seasonality and fire festivals; 4. Cremation and cultivation in the North; 5. Fires from heaven - The links between East and West; 6. The Indo-Iranian culture and its rituals of fire; 7. Cremation, sacrifice and cosmogony in Hinduism

Additional information

CIN1032292989G
9781032292984
1032292989
Indo-European Fire Rituals: Cattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony by Anders Kaliff
Anders Kaliff
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-30
212
N/A
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