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Archaeologies of remembrance : death and memory in past societies / edited by Howard Williams.
Penn Museum Library GT3170 .A73 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Congresses.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
- Death--Social aspects--History--Congresses.
- Death.
- Memory--Social aspects--History--Congresses.
- Memory.
- Material culture--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Social archaeology--Congresses.
- Social archaeology.
- Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- History.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.
- Contents:
- Building from Memory / Vicki Cummings 25
- Rates of (Ex)change / Chris Fowler 45
- Technologies of Remembrance / Andrew Jones 65
- Tales from the Dead / Mike Williams 89
- Remembering Rome / Valerie M. Hope 113
- Objects without a past? / Hella Eckardt, Howard Williams 141
- Iconoclasm, belief and memory in early medieval Wales / Gareth Longden 171
- Memories in Stone / David Petts 193
- Memory, Salvation and Ambiguity / Victoria Thompson 215
- Remembering and Forgetting the Medieval Dead / Howard Williams 227
- Memories of the Early Medieval Past / Bonnie Effros 255
- Dyster star dosen / Cornelius Holtorf 281.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference session of the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference held in December 2000 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306474514
- OCLC:
- 50866833
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