Human Sacrifice and the Rituals of War in Early China

“To celebrate a rite is to do something. There is nothing more difficult than imagining how something is done without going to see it. The spatial distribution of actors and actions, the layout of the space itself, the unfolding and organization of the series of movements, the atmosphere and geography of the rite – all are critical.” Problems in the Study of Early Chinese Ritual and Human Sacrifice Historians of ritual in early societies, such as those of ancient Greece and China, are confron..