Prioritizing death and society
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Death, grief and funerary practices are central to any analysis of social, anthropological, artistic and religious worlds. However, cemeteries - the key conceptual and physical site for death - have rarely been the focus of archaeological research. Prioritizing Death and Society examines the structure, organisation and significance of cemeteries in the Southern Levant, one of the key areas for both migration and settlement in both prehistory and antiquity. Spanning 6,000 years, from the Chalcolithic to the present day, Prioritizing Death and Society presents new research to analyse the formation and regional variation in cemeteries. By examining both ancient and present-day - nationally Jewish - cemeteries, the study reveals the commonalities and differences in the ways in which death has been and continues to be ritualised, memorialised and understood.
Title |
Prioritizing death and society : the archaeology of Chalcolithic and contemporary cemeteries in the Southern Levant / Assaf Nativ. [electronic resource] |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher |
Durham : Acumen Publishing |
Creation Date |
2014 |
Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Part I: Introduction -- Binary oppositions, logical gaps and thick descriptions -- Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks, twitches, and faked twitches -- Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries -- Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries -- Dark, damp, and deep: karstic-cave systems -- Funerary structures -- Exceptions, outliers and misfits -- Structured deposition and depositional structures -- Part III: Contemporary cemeteries: an archaeology of us -- The raw materials: from matt to lustre, from grey to colour -- Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories -- Tombstone elaboration. |
Series |
Approaches to anthropological archaeology |
Extent |
1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997012196653605171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Death Social aspects Middle East History.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies Middle East.
- Cemeteries Middle East.
- Human remains (Archaeology) Middle East.
- Bioarchaeology
- Skeletal remains (Archaeology)
- Burial grounds
- Burying-grounds
- Churchyards
- Graves
- Graveyards
- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries)
- Memorial parks (Cemeteries)
- Memory gardens (Cemeteries)
- Necropoleis
- Necropoles
- Necropoli
- Necropolises
- Funerals
- Mortuary ceremonies
- Obsequies
- Death Philosophy
- Dying
- End of life
- Middle East Antiquities.
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