Bonding over a death: signalling in the funeral episode of Ibn Faḍlān's Risala.
Many of the rites described by Ibn Faḍlān in his account of a Rūs funeral remain obscure. Rather than attempting to further puzzle out the symbolic content of these funerary practices, this article uses signalling theory to examine their role in group dynamics. Signalling theory examines the honesty...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 437 - 461 |
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