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020			_a9780429444746 _q(ebook)
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100	1		_aLaidoner, Triin, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAncestor worship and the elite in late iron age Scandinavia : _ba grave matter / _cTriin Laidoner.
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bn _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in medieval history and culture
520			_a"Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is examined from a broad socio-anthropological perspective, which is used to structure a set of case studies which analyse the cults of specific individuals in Old Norse literature. The situation of gods in Old Norse religion has been almost exclusively addressed in isolation from these socio-anthropological perspectives. The public gravemound cults of deceased rulers are discussed conventionally as cases of sacral kingship, and more recently, religious ruler ideology; both are seen as having divine associations in Old Norse scholarship. Building on the anthropological framework, this study introduces the concept of 'superior ancestors', employed in social anthropology to denote a form of political ancestor worship used to regulate social structure deliberately. It suggests that Old Norse ruler ideology was based on conventional and widely recognised religious practices revolving around kinship and ancestors and that the gods were perceived as human ancestors belonging to elite families"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
650		0	_aAncestor worship _zScandinavia.
651		0	_aScandinavia _xReligion _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / General _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_3Read Online _uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429444746
856	4	2	_3OCLC metadata license agreement _uhttp://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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