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Ancestor worship --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Religious aspects

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Ancestor worship --- Gods --- -Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Deities --- Divine beings --- Divinities --- Mythology, Classical --- Misotheism --- Mythology --- Religions --- Theomachy --- Religious aspects --- -Gods --- Ancestor cult --- Ancestor worship - Congo (Democratic Republic)

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In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

Ancestor worship --- Ancestor worship. --- Christianity. --- China --- History. --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Religious aspects --- History --- Social life and customs --- Kings and rulers

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Hero worship --- Ancestor worship --- Bronze age --- Iron age --- Héros --- Morts --- Age du bronze --- Age du fer --- History --- Culte --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Héros --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Civilization --- Hero cult --- Worship --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Religious aspects

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This new edition of Living with the Ancestors contains an entirely new introduction that synthesizes scholarship on ancestralizing practices that has emerged since the 1995 publication of the first edition, which was heralded in Ethnohistory as 'a gem' by Robert M. Carmack. Ancestor veneration in the Maya region traditionally was associated with divine kingship and royal genealogies. In this study, the author challenges this assumption and presents a strong case for agrarian and Preclassic antecedents to the practice of remembering and celebrating forebears and curating their remains close to the dwelling. Integrating archaeological, epigraphic, ethnohistoric and ethnographic information, the author places ancestors within the larger social landscape of fields, orchards and gardens. The many registers of significance on which ancestralizing practices resonate are examined in detail - including spirituality, land tenure patterns, kin relations, and charters of rulership, to name just a few. Although case material is drawn from the Maya region, anyone interested in ancestor veneration will find intriguing material in this study.

Mayas --- Ancestor worship --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Kinship. --- Kings and rulers. --- Kinship --- Kings and rulers --- Genealogy --- Religious aspects --- Genealogy.