Chapter Eleven Understanding the Death and Burial of Northern European Bog Bodies

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. The Value and Power of Sacrifice 1
5. Defining and Redefining the Boundaries of Sacrifice
6. Anthropology and Sacrifice 15
7. A View from a Fen 31
8. Gifts from the Gods 49
9. Post-Domestic Sacrifice 65
10. Sacrifice across the Mediterranean World
11. Every Good and Pure Thing 87
12. The Mythology of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice 103
13. The Art of Ancient Greek Sacrifice 127
14. Etruscan Human Sacrifice 145
15. Exploring Exceptional Cases of Sacrifice
16. Human Sacrifices as “Crisis Management”? 171
17. Dog Sacrifice at the Protohistoric Site of Mas Castellar (Pontós, Spain) 191
18. Understanding the Death and Burial of Northern European Bog Bodies 211
19. Formularizing and Regularizing Sacrifice
20. Sacrificing the Sign 223
21. Ancient Greek Laws on Sacrifice 241
22. In What Way Is Christ’s Death a Sacrifice? 255
23. Contributors 271
24. Index 273