{"product_id":"death-war-and-sacrifice-9780226482002","title":"Death War and Sacrifice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 essayssix of them previously unpublishedfall 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 charged correlation. Part III presents Lincoln's most contro","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400035934551,"sku":"9780226482002","price":35.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226482002.jpg?v=1730469513","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-war-and-sacrifice-9780226482002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}