The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

Herausgeber: Tarlow, Sarah; Stutz, Liv Nilsson

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook reviews the state of mortuary archaeology and its practice with forty-four chapters focusing on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods and geographical areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 870
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 168mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1350g
• ISBN-13: 9780198855255
• ISBN-10: 0198855257
• Artikelnr.: 58458032

Autorenporträt

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 Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Linnaeus 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.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* List of Text Boxes
* List of Tables
* List of Contributors
* 1: Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah Tarlow: Beautiful Things and Bones of
Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial
* Part 1: Approaches to Death and Burial
* 2: Adam Stout: Cultural History, Race, and Peoples
* 3: Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Deada Early Debates on Palaeolithic
Burials in a National Context
* 4: Robert Chapman: Death, Burial, and Social Representation
* 5: Susan Kus: Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the
Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the
Imagined
* Part 2: The Nature of the Evidence
* 6: Charlotte Roberts: The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-being:
Its Contribution to Understanding the Past
* 7: Barbara Bramanti: The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of
Death and Burial
* 8: Gunilla Eriksson: Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans
* 9: Jacqueline McKinley: Cremation: Excavation, Analysis and
Interpretation of Material from Cremation-related Contexts
* 10: Fredrik Ekengren: Contextualising Grave Goods: Theoretical
Perspectives and Methodological Implications
* Part 3: The Human Experience of Death across Cultural Contexts
* 11: Howard Williams: Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic
Commemoration and the Cremated Dead
* 12: David Edwards: African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and
Mortuary Archaeology
* 13: Lars Fogelin: The Place of Veneration in Early South Asican
Buddhism
* 14: Andrew Petersen: The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the
Islamic World
* 15: Deirdre O Sullivan: Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later
Middle Ages
* 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: The Unburied Dead
* 17: Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel: Upper
Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the
Burial Record
* 18: Chantal Coneller: Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe
* 19: James Brown: Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the
Eastern United States
* 20: Robert Chapman: The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric
Iberia
* 21: Peter Kaulicke: The Powerful Dead of the Inca
* 22: Joshua Wright: Land-ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction
and Contexts
* 23: Magdalena Midgley: Megaliths in North-West Europe: the Cosmology
of Sacred Landscapes
* 24: John Robb: Creating Death: an Archaeology of Dying
* 25: Alexander Gramsch: Treating Bodies Transformative and
Communicative Practices
* 26: Melanie Giles: Preserving the Body
* 27: Terje Oestigaard: Cremations in Culture and Cosmology
* 28: Chris Fowler: Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary
Rites, and the Mortuary Process
* 29: Joanna Sofaer and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen: Death and Gender
* 30: Gillian Shepherd: Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity
in Ancient Greek Burials
* 31: Maureen Carroll: Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary
Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empire s Frontiers
* 32: Alice Yao: Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient
China
* 33: Erica Hill: Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late
Moche
* 34: Sarah Tarlow: Belief and the Archaeology of Death
* 35: Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen: Insights into Early Mortuary
Practices of Homo
* 36: Claudia Naeser: Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case-study on
the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and Fragmentation of
Grave Inventories in New Kingdom Thebes
* Part 4: The Ethics and Politics of Burial Archaeology
* 37: Sapient trouble-tombs'a Archaeologists'Mmoral Obligations to the
Dead
* 38: Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesson: Looting Matters Early Bronze
Age Cemeteries of Jordan's southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and
Present
* 39: Joe Watkins: How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics
of the Human Skeleton
* 40: Cressida Fforde: In Search of Others: the History and Legacy of
'race' collections
* 41: Colin Pardoe: Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in
Australia: Rhetoric and Practice
* 42: Layla Renshaw: The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern
Military Death
* 43: Layla Renshaw: The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and
Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical
Considerations
* 44: Liv Nilsson Stutz: Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses,
Victims, and Tools