In her in-depth study of the rich archaelogical record of ritual contexts of inland settlements of Archaic Sicily, submitted as PhD thesis to the Universitz of insbruck, the author of this prize-winning book takes an explicit methodological approach towards her subject in the vein of Anthony F. C. Wallace’s definition of ritual as ‘religion in action’ as expounded in his “Religion. An Anthropological View” (New York 1966) {...}
This book is a must for all those who engage in the archaeological study of ‘Religion in Action’.

Von Peter Attema

In Germania 96, 2018, S. 307-311

Birgit Öhlinger, born in 1983, studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Egyptology in Innsbruck and Vienna. 2014 she received her doctorate in Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeologies at the University of Innsbruck, where she is currently working as assistant professor. Since 2011 she, together with Prof. Erich Kistler, is directing excavations at Monte Iato, an indigenous hill-top settlement in western Sicily. Her research focuses on the pre-Roman Mediterranean and explores cultural contacts and transmediterranean flows. Another focus is on religion and ritual and their material expressions in the archaeological record with emphasis on Sicily.