New Perspectives Issue Grapples with Sickness, Hunger, War, and Religion
31.07.2012
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence throughout the centuries. This new volume of RCC Perspectives presents one of the few existing attempts to cross the disciplines in explaining the historical significance of this powerful quartet.
Through the disciplinary lenses of archaeology, anthropology, and history, the authors examine humanity’s struggles with subsistence, religious belief, ill-health, death, and warfare in a variety of global landscapes from prehistory to the medieval period.
Together, the contributions shed light on the benefit of an interdisciplinary investigation into the key connections between sickness, hunger, war, and religion: a clearer picture of our collective past.
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