The poetics of processing : memory formation, identity, and the handling of the dead / edited by Anna J. Osterholtz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osterholtz, Anna J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitehead, Neil L.

Dead--Social aspects.

Dead.

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 264 pages)

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2020]

Summary:

"Examines complex cultural meanings of manipulation of remains after death and combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes. From prehistoric to modern and old world to the new, humans have a relationship with the dead that doesn't cease with physical death"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : processing and poetics, examining the model / Anna J. Osterholtz

Power, mediation, and transformation : dismembered heads from Uraca (Majes Valley, Peru) and the Andean feline-hunter myth / Beth Koontz Scaffidi

The politics and poetics of performance violence at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico / Kyle D. Waller and Adrianne M. Offenbecker

Ritual modification of human remains in the context of social turmoil among Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the northern San Juan / Kristin A. Kuckelman

The poetics of corpse fragmentation and processing in the Ancient Southwest / Debra Martin and Anna J. Osterholtz

Poetics of the house : changing realities of body and person in Aksumite mortuary practices / Dilpreet Singh Basanti

Smiting pharaohs : violence and power in ancient Egypt / Roselyn A. Campbell

Social memory and mortuary practices in Neolithic Anatolia / Marin A. Pilloud, Scott D. Haddow, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Clark Spencer Larsen

Mingled bones, mingled bodies : diversity in the poetics of death at Nabataean Petra, Jordan / Megan Perry and Anna J. Osterholtz

Dissection as social process : anatomical settings in the nineteenth-century United States / Christina J. Hodge and Kenneth C. Nystrom

Processing the destitute and deviant dead : inequality, dissection, politics, and the structurally violent legalization of social marginalization in American anatomical collection / Carlina de la Cova

Conclusion : poetic amplifications and extensions, how to process the dead / Eric J. Haanstad.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646420605

1646420608

OCLC:

1163934937