Human Sacrifice and Value : Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective (Paperback)

Foreword? 1.?Introduction: Introducing Sacrificial Values??Part I:?Observing Sacrificial Logics and Social Values??2. Some Human Sacrifices in Mongolia and Their Rationales? 3. CEO Dismissal as an Act of Human Sacrifice: Metaphor or Reality?? 4. The Economy of Sacrifice: Christ, Coins and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages??Part II:?Reading Logics and Values From Archaeology? ?5.?Competitive Violence and Ruling Elites in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia? 6.?Human Sacrifice in Ancient Near Eastern Societies? 7. The Social Context of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Egypt? 8. Funerary Dramas and Ritual Killing in the Slavic World: Written Sources and Archaeological Realities? 9. From Brave Warriors to Innocent Children: Understanding the Foundations of Ritual Violence in the Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru, 200?1450 A.D.? 10.?Human Sacrifices at Huaca Pucllana in Lima, Peru? 11. Making an Impact: Ritual Public Goods and the Emergence of Retainer Sacrifice in an Early State of Korea? 12. Ritual Killings as Resource Complex in the Viking Age Funeral Ceremony? Part?III:?Reading Transitions in Value Through Exegesis, Ethnology and Critical Synthesis? 13.?Sacrifice in Contemporary Vernacular and Ancient Ritual Texts? 14. Aztec Sacrificial Celebrations as Entertainment? The Physiological and Social Psychological Rewards Attending Aztec Human Sacrifice? 15. Human Sacrifice as Social Control Through Terror? 16. From Sacrificed Humans to Self-Sacrificing Humans: A Longue-Duree Bio-Cultural Evolutionary Perspective on Human Sacrifice??Index