Ritualistic Evidence from Naive Concept Forms to Conceptualizations with Indicator and Criterion

Subject Areas : Interdisciplinary studies

Hekmat Allah Mollasalehi ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-09 Accepted : 2023-07-09 Published : 2012-08-22

Keywords: factors, ritual, Religion, Linguistic Forms, Mute Materials, Lost, Subjects, Absent,

Abstract :

Archaeology of Rituals is hanging between ordinary language and abstract theoretic terminology. Can archaeology of Rituals, from theoretical point of view, avoid ordinary languages? As we know, language of rituals is an etic category that refers to set activities "enthusiasm-laden" and intertwined with multiplex aspects of social life of people. Theoretical languages, as well, have their own structure and defined terminological character. Inadequacy, muteness, fossilized, static and materiality of archaeological data also provoke other controversies to academic and systematic study of Archaeology of lost and passed Rituals and Religions. This article deals briefly with some of the sharpest differences between ordinary and academic or theoretic languages and controversies involving Archaeology of lost Rituals and past Religions.