Ritual imitation as a way of symbolic requalification of culture (on example of proto-bactrian civilization artefacts)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: During the epoch-making transition to early state (potestar) formations, the appeal to all kinds of ritual and imitative practices intensified. Imitative rituals were widely used by carriers of Sapalli culture in southern Uzbekistan in the IInd millennium BC. The article considers the features and semantic positions of the phenomenon of ritual imitation in the sociocultural process and funerary practice of post-primitive society based on artifacts of the early urban settlement of Djarkutan and its necropolises (mainly excavation materials from 1985-1992). Djarkutan is the largest early urban center of Proto-Bactrian civilization, in the cultural environment of which a new system of socio-regulatory relations and values was formed. The author explains some aspects of ritual transformation and symbolic exchange based on the funeral rite of Sapalli culture.
Source: Sphere of Culture
Author: Vladimir I. Ionesov
Institution: Samara State Institute of Culture
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407128362