Response: Defining the Need for a Definition

Authors

Catherine Bell, Santa Clara University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA

Abstract

This piece responds to the ideas and themes expressed so well in the CotsenAdvanced Seminar conference papers and conversation. It explores the benefits andliabilities for archaeology of more culturally detailed arguments about the natureof ritual, while underscoring the basic theory of a practice approach to ritual.

Chapter of

The Archaeology of Ritual

Part of

Cotsen Advanced Seminar

Editor

Evangelos Kyriakidis

Recommended Citation

Bell, C. M. (2008) Defining the Need for a Definition. In E. Kyriakidis (Ed.) The Archaeology of Ritual. University of California at Los Angeles, pp. 277-88.