Espacios liminales y prácticas rituales en el Noroeste Peninsular

Authors

  • Silvia Alfayé University of the Basque Country image/svg+xml
  • Javier  Rodríguez-Corral Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i9.215

Keywords:

liminality, wall, ritual, image, performativity, Northwest

Abstract

Through the contextual analysis of the archaeological record, and from a conceptual and theoretical framework within the idea of liminality is revised, we propose the rethinking and reinterpretation of the archaeological findings spatially related to walls and thresholds of the ‘castros’: human remains, animal and metallic deposits, and sculptured elements such as heads and the so-called ‘Lusitanian warriors’. This paper offers an ap- proach to the symbolic dimension of the walled structures that delimitated the Iron Age settlements of the Iberian Northwest, and it states the existence of magic-religious rituals aimed to sacralised and strengthen the prophylactic character of those liminal places.

Author Biographies

  • Silvia Alfayé, University of the Basque Country

     

     

     

  • Javier  Rodríguez-Corral, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

     

     

     

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Published

2019-11-26

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Section

West Peninsular

How to Cite

Espacios liminales y prácticas rituales en el Noroeste Peninsular. (2019). Palaeohispanica. Review about Languages and Cultures of Ancient Hispania, 9, 107-111. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i9.215

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