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Ritual during periods of decline, collapse and transformation in ancient states / Joanne M.A. Murphy -- Late Bronze Age palatial collapse versus Cretan regeneration : a societal transformation / Florence Gaignerot-Driessen -- Rituals and tombs during the radical transformation of the Pylian state / Joanne M.A. Murphy -- The legacy of Byzantine Christianity in the southern Mani Peninsula, Greece, after imperial collapse / Rebecca Seifried -- As Wari weakened : ritual transitions in the terminal middle horizon of Moquegua, Peru / Donna Nash and Ryan Williams -- Ritual resilience and adaptation in the wake of political transformation at Dainzú, Oaxaca, Mexico / Ronald K. Faulseit, Dante García, Jeremias Pink, Gabrielle Alma López, and Carlos Rojas -- Rejecting, reinventing, resituating : a diachronic perspective on ritual in the aftermath of Tiwanaku state collapse / Nicola Sharratt -- Contextualizing the ritual phase in the evolution of Eastern and Southern African chiefdoms and states / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Flux and continuity in monument-building traditions in South India / Srikumar M. Menon -- Merit making at ancient Bagan, Myanmar : the role of socio-spiritual and political-cultural entanglements in the rise and fall of a classical Southeast Asian state / Gyles Iannone, and Michael Aung-Thwin -- Scales and pathways of human politico-economic affiliation : the roles of ritual / Gary Feinman.

"Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual as a culture-forming dynamic affected decline, collapse and regeneration of the state. Chapters examine ritual in collapsing and regenerating archaic states from diverse locations, time periods, and societies including Crete, Mycenean and Byzantine Greece, Mesopotamia, India, Africa, Mexico, and Peru. Underscoring similarities in a variety of archaic states in the role of ritual during periods of threat, collapse, and transformation, the volume shows how ritual can be used as a stabilizing force or a connecting medium between the present to the past in an empowering way. It also highlights the diversity of ritual roles and location in similar situations and illustrates how states in close proximity and sharing many cultural similarities can respond differently through ritual to stress and contrast the different response in rural and urban settings. Through detailed, cultural specific studies, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the diverse roles of ritual in the decline, collapse, and regeneration of societies and will be important for all archaeologists involved in the important notions of state "collapse" and "regeneration""-- Provided by publisher.

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