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Unusual death and memorialization : burial, space, and memory in the post-Medieval North / edited by Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Tiina Väre, Ulla Moilanen, and Annemari Tranberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Northern Hemisphere.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Burial--Northern Hemisphere.
- Burial.
- Death--Causes.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Berghahn Books, 2022.
- Contents:
- Introduction. In search of unusual in early modern and modern burial traditions / Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla Moilanen
- Forgotten and remembered : unusual memorial practices at Buffalo's old cemeteries / Sanna Lipkin
- Reactions to tragedy : familial and community memorials to sudden occupational deaths in Britain and Ireland / Harold Mytum
- Memory of epidemic diseases in Finland : old disease cemeteries and modern urban planning / Titta Kallio-Seppä and Tiina Väre
- Freethinkers' cemeteries and local secular burial culture in Finland / Ilona Pajari
- Death during retreat : the burials of Carolean soldiers in Jämtland and Trøndelag (Sweden and Norway) / Kristina Jonsson
- Taken to the island : temporary burials in early and late modern periods in Finnish periphery / Tiina Väre and Juha Ruohonen
- "On the apparitions of drowned men" : folklore and the memory of unnatural death at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland / Sarah Hoffman
- Death lives with us : witchcraft on the east coast of Bothnian Bay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Annemari Tranberg
- The cause of death-arsenic or mercury? Investigation of human remains from entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (sixteenth-early seventeenth century) / Tatiana Dmitrievna Panova, Andrey Yurievich Dmitriev, Sergey Borisovich Borzakov, and Constantin Hramco
- Sawed skulls : archaeological evidence of medico-legal autopsies in Finland / Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, Heli Lehto, Kati Salo, Maija Helamaa, and Kari Uotila.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 11th, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Unusual death and memorialization
- ISBN:
- 1800736037
- 9781800736030
- Publisher Number:
- 40031284877
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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