The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial /
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description: | xix, 849 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford handbooks Oxford handbooks. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9143912 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1. Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial
- Part I. Approaches to Death and Burial
- 2. Cultural History, Race, and Peoples
- 3. Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Dead?: Early Debates on Palaeolithic Burials in a National Context
- 4. Death, Burial, and Social Representation
- 5. Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the Imagined
- Part II. The Nature of the Evidence
- 6. The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-Being: Its Contribution to Understanding the Past
- 7. The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial
- 8. Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans
- 9. Cremation: Excavation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Material from Cremation-Related Contexts
- 10. Contextualizing Grave Goods: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications
- Part III. The Human Experience of Death Across Cultural Contexts
- 11. Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic Commemoration and the Cremated Dead
- 12. African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology
- 13. The Place of Veneration in Early South Asian Buddhism
- 14. The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Islamic World
- 15. Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later Middle Ages
- 16. The Unburied Dead
- 17. Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record
- 18. Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe
- 19. Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States
- 20. The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric Iberia
- 21. The Powerful Dead of the Inca
- 22. Land Ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction and Contexts
- 23. Megaliths in North-West Europe: The Cosmology of Sacred Landscapes
- 24. Creating Death: An Archaeology of Dying
- 25. Treating Bodies: Transformative and Commumcative Practices
- 26. Preserving the Body
- 27. Cremations in Culture and Cosmology
- 28. Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary Rites, and the Mortuary Process
- 29. Death and Gender
- 30. Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials
- 31. Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empire's Frontiers
- 32. Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient China
- 33. Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche
- 34. Belief and the Archaeology of Death
- 35. Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo
- 36. Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case Study on the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and Fragmentation of Grave Inventories in New Kingdom Thebes
- Part IV. The Ethics and Politics of Burial Archaeology
- 37. 'Sapient Trouble-Tombs'?: Archaeologists' Moral Obligations to the Dead
- 38. Looting Matters: Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordan's Southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and Present
- 39. How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics of the Human Skeleton
- 40. In Search of Others: The History and Legacy of 'Race' Collections
- 41. Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in Australia: Rhetoric and Practice
- 42. The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern Military Death
- 43. The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical Considerations
- 44. Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses, Victims, and Tools
- Index
