Assaf Nativ

Prioritizing Death and Society

The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Death, grief and funerary practices are central to any analysis of social, anthropological, artistic and religious worlds

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781844657513
• ISBN-10: 1844657515
• Artikelnr.: 39613916

Autorenporträt

Assaf Nativ is a post-doctoral fellow in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and is a staff member in the publication project of the Iron Age Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Binary oppositions
logical gaps and thick descriptions
Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries
3. Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks
twitches and faked twitches
4. Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries
5. Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries
6. Dark
damp and deep: karstic-cave systems
7. Funerary structures
8. Exceptions
outliers and misfits
9. Structured deposition and depositional structures
Part III: Contemporary cemeteries
10. An archaeology of us
11. The raw materials: from matt to lustre
from grey to colour
12. Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories
13. Tombstone elaboration: personal expressions
14. Spatial patterns: between institutional policy and interpersonal spontaneity
15. Intersecting discourses
Part IV: Conclusion
16. Prioritizing death and society
17. Epilogue
Appendix: Gazetteers of cemeteries
Notes
Bibliography
Index