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Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Nicola Laneri ; with contributions by Ellen F. Morris ... [and others].

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Laneri, Nicola.
Morris, Ellen F.
Series:
University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3.
University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Physical Description:
xviii, 317 pages: illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Place of Publication:
Chicago : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007.
Summary:
This volume represents a collection of contributions presented by the authors during the Second Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar "Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean," held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006. The principal aim of the two-day seminar was to interpret the social relevance resulting from the enactment of funerary rituals within the broad-reaching Mediterranean basin from prehistoric periods to the Roman Age. Efforts were concentrated on creating a panel composed of scholars with diverse backgrounds - anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, art historians, and philologists - and the knowledge and expertise to enrich the discussion through the presentation of case-studies linked to both textual and archaeological evidence from the Mediterranean region. Fundamental to the successful realisation of this research process was the active dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds. These communicative exchanges provided the opportunity to integrate different approaches and interpretations concerning the role played by the performance of ancient funerary rituals within a given society and, as a result, helped in defining a coherent outcome towards the interpretation of ancient communities' behaviours.
Contents:
An archaeology of funerary rituals / Nicola Laneri
Sacrifice for the state / E.F. Morris
Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria / G.M. Schwartz
Mortuary rituals, social relations, and identity in southeast Spain in the late third to early second millennia B.C. / Robert Chapman
Combined efforts till death / Massimo Cultraro
Remembering and forgetting in early bronze age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea plain, Jordan / M.S. Chesson
Etruscan style of dying / Alessandro Naso
The politics of loss / Adam T. Smith
Sumerian funerary rituals in context / Dina Katz
Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson
Death of a household / Susan Pollock
Achilles and the sallis wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford
Ritualizing death in Republican Rome / John Pollini
Burial treatment as transformations of bodily ideology / John Robb
Mortuary practices for the third millennium : 1966-2000 / James A. Brown.
Notes:
Proceedings from the 2nd annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminar held at the Oriental Institute , February 17-18, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1885923503
9781885923509
OCLC:
156832396

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