Sacrifices of Raw, Cooked and Burnt Humans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6094995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terje Oestigaard (0000-0001-7775-5434, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-58 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293650050202619 |
| OpenAlex | W1975265762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 25 |
Sacrifice is a ritual practice including funerals. Rituals teach people to be-lieve in cultural principles by creating experiences in which they can be apprehended, and therefore rituals produce social order by producing con-ceptual order. The supreme metaphoric symbol is the human victim. Be-yond human sacrifice remains only the sacrificer’s own death. The dead humans can be seen as gifts to the gods. There are at least three modes of preparation of the corpse for the gods: it can be sacrificed raw, cooked or burnt. Cremation as a heat-mediated transformation renders possible at least two ways of preparing the corpse. The cremated ones may either be cooked or burnt. The deceased are prepared in various ways to become ed-ible meals for the deities. The humans are as a banqueting sacrifice re-turned to their land of origin. Social control is defined by hierarchically ordered powers determining who can be sacrificed and in what manner the sacrifice can be made. In this sacrificial practice the whole cosmological world is incorporated in the resurrection of the society, legitimated by the gods through their consumption of a holy meal
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Consumption (sociology) · Order (exchange) · Sacrifice · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |