Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice by Lincoln, Bruce

University of Chicago Press, 1991. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Bottom corner of front cover and top corner of back cover are creased. Spine is lightly sunned, not affecting legibility. Some sticker residue near bottom of back cover. Edges of text block are lightly foxed, not visible on pages. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy. 289 pages. The author is one of the world's leading specialists in Ind-European religion and society, and in these essays he expresses his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Chicago: White Lotus Press, 1991. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.42. Dearth, War, and Sacrifice

Paperback / softback. New. One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays--six of them previously unpublished--fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain the best available source of data for the topics they address. In Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a single culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to that of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters connecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of antiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human society into an ideologically… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1991. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 312 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

University of Chicago Press, 1991-08-27. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!