Mortuary monuments and burial grounds of the historic period /

Mortuary monuments and burial grounds of the historic period /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Mytum, H. C.
Imprint:New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.
Description:xxv, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Manuals in archaeological method, theory, and technique
Subject:
Sepulchral monuments.
Cemeteries.
War memorials.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Cemeteries.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Sepulchral monuments.
War memorials.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5064698
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ISBN:0306480751
030648076X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-260) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List Of Figures
  • List Of Tables
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. A Brief History - Historical Mortuary Archaeology
  • 1.1. Antiquarian interests
  • 1.2. The Origins and Development of Contemporary Research
  • 2. Theoretical Approaches
  • 2.1. Culture-history
  • 2.2. Functionalist Approaches
  • 2.3. Structuralist Approaches
  • 2.4. Marxist Approaches
  • 2.5. Symbolic studies
  • 2.6. Other recently developed approaches
  • Summary
  • II. Folk Traditions and High Culture: Funerary and Commemorative Practice to the Early 18th Century
  • 1. Death
  • 1.1. The Good Death
  • 2. The Funeral Mourning Dress and Funeral Expenditure
  • 3. Burial Grounds
  • 3.1. Location
  • 3.2. Spatial Arrangement
  • 3.3. Burial
  • 4. Internal Memorials
  • 4.1. Materials
  • 4.2. Forms
  • 5. External Memorials
  • 5.1. Materials
  • 5.2. Forms
  • 5.3. Decoration and Symbols
  • 6. Conclusions
  • III. A Maturing Industry: the Mid 18th century to Early 20th Century
  • 1. The Funeral
  • 1.1. The Coffin and Preparation of the Body
  • 1.2. Increasing Commercialisation
  • 1.3. Popular Fears Regarding Burial
  • 2. Mourning
  • 2.1. Mourning Jewelry
  • 2.2. Other Mourning Material Culture
  • 3. Commemoration
  • 4. Burial Grounds and Cemeteries
  • 4.1. Location
  • 4.2. Intra-site spatial arrangement
  • 5. Internal Memorials
  • 5.1. Materials
  • 5.2. Form and style
  • 6. External Memorials
  • 6.1. Materials
  • 6.2. Forms
  • 7. Decoration and Symbols
  • 8. Text
  • 9. Conclusions
  • IV. A Marginalized Activity: From After World War I
  • 1. The Funeral
  • 1.1. The Context of Death
  • 1.2. Changes in Organization
  • 1.3. Coffins and Caskets
  • 1.4. Choices in Body Disposal
  • 2. Mourning
  • 3. Commemoration
  • 4. Burial Grounds and Cemeteries
  • 4.1. Location
  • 4.2. Intra-site Spatial Arrangement
  • 5. Internal Memorials
  • 6. External Memorials
  • 6.1. Materials
  • 6.2. Forms
  • 6.3. Decoration and Symbols
  • 6.4. Text
  • 7. Conclusions
  • V: Production and Consumption
  • 1. Funerary and Mourning Paraphernalia
  • 1.1. Coffins and Fittings
  • 1.2. Mourning Paraphernalia
  • 2. Commemoration
  • 2.1. Materials and the Process of Monument Manufacture
  • 2.2. Production and the Role of Carvers
  • 2.3. Commissioning and Production of Monuments
  • 3. Temporal Change
  • 4. Spatial Change
  • 4.1. Regional Studies
  • 4.2. Distribution of Carvers'' Products
  • 4.3. Intra-site Patterns
  • 5. Conclusions
  • VI
  • 1. The Relationship between Living Communities and Burial Ground Populations
  • 2. Status
  • 3. Family Structures
  • 3.1. Scale of Family
  • 3.2. Male Roles
  • 3.3. Female Roles
  • 3.4. Children
  • 3.5. Family Relationships
  • 4. Institutional Structures
  • 5. Patterns of Dependency
  • 6. Social Hierarchies
  • 6.1. Elite Burial
  • 6.2. Pauper Burial
  • 7. Necrogeography
  • 8. Emulation
  • VII. Identities
  • 1. Religious Affiliation
  • 1.1. Christian denominations
  • 1.2. Other religions
  • 1.3. Combined burial grounds
  • 2. Ethnicity
  • 3. Linguistic Group
  • 4. Vocational Identity
  • 4.1. Religious leaders
  • 4.2. Military
  • 4.3. Other identities
  • 5. Conclusions
  • VIII. Attitudes to Death, the Body and Remembrance
  • 1. The Manner of Death
  • 1.1. The good death
  • 2. Attitudes to the Body
  • 2.1. Interment
  • 2.2. Cremation
  • 2.3. The Unburied Body
  • 2.4. The Body through Representation
  • 2.5. Symbolism and Epitaphs
  • 3. Grave Refurbishment
  • 4. Conclusions
  • IX. Carrying Out a Study
  • 1. Methodological Issues
  • 1.1. Dating
  • 1.2. Location
  • 1.3. Classification of Memorials
  • 1.4. Demography
  • 2. Project Fieldwork Planning
  • 2.1. Types of Study
  • 2.2. Preparatory Work
  • 2.3. Health and Safety
  • 2.4. Etiquette in the Burial Ground
  • 3. Sampling
  • 3.1. Spatial Sampling
  • 3.2. Sample Size versus Sample Detail
  • 3.3. Student Projects
  • 3.4. Excavation
  • 4. Survey
  • 4.1. Surface mapping
  • 4.2. Geophysical survey
  • 4.3. Photography
  • 5. Researching Memorials
  • 5.1. Written Recording
  • 5.2. Images
  • 6. Analysis
  • 7. Excavation
  • X. Conservation, Education and Display
  • 1. Ethics and Methods of Conservation
  • 1.1. Landscape Conservation
  • 1.2. Memorials
  • 2. Historic Burial Grounds in Education
  • 2.1. Mathematics
  • 2.2. Science
  • 2.3. Information Technology
  • 2.4. Social History
  • 2.5. Religion
  • 2.6. Art
  • 2.7. Literature
  • 2.8. Folklife
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