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Death embodied : archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse / edited by Zoë L. Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham.

Contributor(s): Devlin, Zoe [editor.] | Graham, Emma-Jayne [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in funerary archaeology ; v. 9.Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015Description: 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781782979432 (paperback); 1782979433 (paperback)Subject(s): To 1500 | Restes humains (archéologie) | Human remains (Archaeology) | Dead -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500 | Death -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500 | Burial -- History -- To 1500 | Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient | Excavations (Archaeology) | Social archaeology | Burial | Dead -- Social aspects | Death -- Social aspects | Excavations (Archaeology) | Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient | Human remains (Archaeology) | Social archaeology | Archéologie funéraire | Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Avant 1500Genre/Form: HistoryAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Death embodiedDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC79.5.H85 | D435 2015
Contents:
Introduction: Embodying death in archaeology / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Neither fish nor fowl : burial practices between inhumation and cremation / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Corporeal concerns : the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices / Emma-Jayne Graham -- "(Un)touched by decay" : Anglo-Saxon encounters with dead bodies / Zoë L. Devlin -- Funerary and post-depositional body treatments at the Middle Anglo-Saxon Cemetery winnall II : norm, variety, and forms of deviance / Edeltraud Aspöck -- The burnt, the whole and the broken : funerary variability in the Linearbandkeramik / Daniela Hofmann -- Practices of ritual marginalization in late prehistoric Veneto : evidence from the field / Elisa Perego, Massimo Saracino, Lorenzo Zamboni, Vera Zanoni -- Prehistoric Maltese death : democratic theatre or elite democracy? / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone.
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Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 28 - Main Room
C1 DEVLI 30656 Not for loan BOOKS-000000023559

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Embodying death in archaeology / Emma-Jayne Graham -- Neither fish nor fowl : burial practices between inhumation and cremation / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Corporeal concerns : the role of the body in the transformation of Roman mortuary practices / Emma-Jayne Graham -- "(Un)touched by decay" : Anglo-Saxon encounters with dead bodies / Zoë L. Devlin -- Funerary and post-depositional body treatments at the Middle Anglo-Saxon Cemetery winnall II : norm, variety, and forms of deviance / Edeltraud Aspöck -- The burnt, the whole and the broken : funerary variability in the Linearbandkeramik / Daniela Hofmann -- Practices of ritual marginalization in late prehistoric Veneto : evidence from the field / Elisa Perego, Massimo Saracino, Lorenzo Zamboni, Vera Zanoni -- Prehistoric Maltese death : democratic theatre or elite democracy? / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone.