ANIMAL SACRIFICE IN ANCIENT GREECE. BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2020.5.130.136Keywords:
archaeology, Ancient Greece, anthropology, ritual, sacrifi ceAbstract
This bibliographic essay addresses the different approaches to animal sacrifi ce generally with a focus on animal sacrifi ce in ancient Greece specifi cally. As animal sacrifi ce was one of the unfamiliar rituals introduced to western anthropologists by foreign cultures, the ritual of animal sacrifi ce was addressed by anthropologists as early as the nineteenth century. Later, the topic was a trend in other different majors like archaeology, history, sociology and psychology as well.
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