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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.

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ISBN-13: 9780191650390
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 06/06/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester where she has taught and researched the archaeology of death and historical arcaheology since 2000. She has written several books and numerous academic articles and is an editor of Archaeological Dialogues. Liv Nilsson Stutz is a lecturer in Anthropology at Emory University. She has published widely on the topics of mortuary ritual in the past and on the debate on repatriation and reburial., and is an editor of Archaeological Dialogues.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of Text BoxesList of TablesList of Contributors1. Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial, Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah TarlowPart 1: Approaches to Death and Burial2. Cultural History, Race, and Peoples, Adam Stout3. Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Deada Early Debates on Palaeolithic Burials in a National Context4. Death, Burial, and Social Representation, Robert Chapman5. Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the Imagined, Susan KusPart 2: The Nature of the Evidence6. The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-being: Its Contribution to Understanding the Past, Charlotte Roberts7. The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial, Barbara Bramanti8. Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans, Gunilla Eriksson9. Cremation: Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Material from Cremation-related Contexts, Jacqueline McKinley10. Contextualising Grave Goods: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications, Fredrik EkengrenPart 3: The Human Experience of Death across Cultural Contexts11. Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic Commemoration and the Cremated Dead, Howard Williams12. African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology, David Edwards13. The Place of Veneration in Early South Asican Buddhism, Lars Fogelin14. The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Islamic World, Andrew Petersen15. Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later Middle Ages, Deirdre O Sullivan16. The Unburied Dead, Estella Weiss-Krejci17. Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record, Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel18. Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe, Chantal Coneller19. Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States, James Brown20. The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric Iberia, Robert Chapman21. The Powerful Dead of the Inca, Peter Kaulicke22. Land-ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction and Contexts, Joshua Wright23. Megaliths in North-West Europe: the Cosmology of Sacred Landscapes, Magdalena Midgley24. Creating Death: an Archaeology of Dying, John Robb25. Treating Bodies Transformative and Communicative Practices, Alexander Gramsch26. Preserving the Body, Melanie Giles27. Cremations in Culture and Cosmology, Terje Oestigaard28. Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary Rites, and the Mortuary Process, Chris Fowler29. Death and Gender, Joanna Sofaer and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen30. Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials, Gillian Shepherd31. Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empire s Frontiers, Maureen Carroll32. Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient China, Alice Yao33. Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche, Erica Hill34. Belief and the Archaeology of Death, Sarah Tarlow35. Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo, Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen36. Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case-study on the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and Frag­ment­ation of Grave Inventories in New Kingdom Thebes, Claudia NaeserPart 4: The Ethics and Politics of Burial Archaeology37. Sapient trouble-tombs'a Archaeologists'Mmoral Obligations to the Dead38. Looting Matters Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordan's southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and Present, Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesson39. How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics of the Human Skeleton, Joe Watkins40. In Search of Others: the History and Legacy of 'race' collections, Cressida Fforde41. Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in Australia: Rhetoric and Practice, Colin Pardoe42. The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern Military Death, Layla Renshaw43. The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical Considerations, Layla Renshaw44. Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses, Victims, and Tools, Liv Nilsson Stutz
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