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Cremation and the Archaeology of Death

Cremation and the Archaeology of Death

          
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The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies. Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in this volume seek to confront and explore the challenges of interpreting the variability of cremation by contending with complex networks of modern allusions and imaginings of cremations past and present and ongoing debates regarding how we identify and interpret cremation in the archaeological record. Using a series of original case studies, the book investigates the archaeological traces of cremation in a varied selection of prehistoric and historic contexts from the Mesolithic to the present in order to explore cremation from a practice-oriented and historically situated perspective.

Table of Contents:
1: Howard Williams, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, and Anna Wessman: Introduction: Archaeologies of Cremation Part 1: Relational Fiery Technologies 2: Amy Gray Jones: Cremation and the Use of Fire in Mesolithic Mortuary Practices in North-West Europe 3: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Rediscovering the Body: Cremation and Inhumation in Early Iron Age Central Europe 4: Ruth Nugent: Two of a Kind: Conceptual Similarities between Cremation and Inhumation in Early Anglo-Saxon England 5: Lynne Goldstein: Fiery Technology' and Transformative Placemaking: A Contextual Examination of a 'Crematory' at the Aztalan Site in Wisconsin 6: Douglas H. Ubelaker: Interpretation of Burned Human Remains: Lessons from Modern Forensic Case Part 2: Transforming and Commemorating with Cremation 7: Gabriel Cooney: Pathways for the Dead in the Middle and Late Bronze Age in Ireland 8: Anna Röst: Building by Stone and Bone: Handling Cremated Remains in Late Bronze Age Sweden 9: Jessica I. Cerezo-Román, Koen Deforce, Denis Henrotay and Wim Van Neer: From Life to Death: Dynamics of Personhood in Gallo-Roman Funeral Customs, Luxemburg Province, Belgium 10: Anna Wessman and Howard Williams: Building for the Cremated Dead: Ephemeral and Cumulative Constructions Part 3: Space and Time in Cremating Societies 11: Jarkko Saipio: The Emergence of Cremations in Eastern Fennoscandia: Changing Uses of Fire in Ritual Contexts 12: Lise Harvig: Land of the Cremated Dead: On Cremation Practices in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Scandinavia 13: Kirsty E. Squires: Come Rain or Shine? The Social Implications of Seasonality and Weather on the Cremation Rite in Early Anglo-Saxon England 14: Howard Williams and Anna Wessman: The Contemporary Archaeology of Urban Cremation


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198798118
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Depth: 35
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 760 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198798113
  • Publisher Date: 27 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 177 mm


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