Archaeologies of Remembrance : Death and Memory in Past Societies / edited by Howard Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Howard, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Cultural property.

Anthropology.

History.

Cultural Heritage.

Local Subjects:

Archaeology.

Cultural Heritage.

Anthropology.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2003.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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

Rates of (Ex)change

Technologies of Remembrance

Tales from the Dead

Remembering Rome

Objects without a past?

Iconoclasm, belief and memory in early medieval Wales

Memories in Stone

Memory, Salvation and Ambiguity

Remembering and Forgetting the Medieval Dead

Memories of the Early Medieval Past

Dyster står dösen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4419-9222-7