Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 229 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781009247405
Content:
The book explains how change in burial practices take place by focussing on how new practices are processed by local communities.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- One Introduction: Changing Practices and Perception of the Body -- Reflections on Aims and Scope -- The Body: As Materiality and the Location of Death -- Discussing Beliefs -- About Burials and Cremations -- Our Position -- Two A Brief History of Urns, Urnfields, and Burial in the Urnfield Culture -- Tripping over Urns: Early Recognition and Explanations of Urns and Urnfields -- Framing Time: The Birth of the 'Urnfield' -- Ethnic Explanations: 'Urnfield People' and 'Urnfield Culture' -- Understanding How Cultural Practices Spread: Migrations and Diffusions -- Explaining Urnfield Symbolism, Beliefs, and Religion -- Recent Trends -- Three Theoretical Framework -- The Corpse Is a Body, Too -- Materiality: Making People and Burials -- Briefly on Methodology: Investigating How Burials Are Conducted and Graves Constructed -- The Importance of Temporality: Chaînes Opératoires and Biographies -- Four The Bronze Age: Setting the Scene -- Chronology: Event or Process -- The Social Landscapes -- The Body in Domestic Contexts -- The Individual, Mobility, and Life Expectancy -- Aspects of Beliefs: Hoards and Iconography -- Representations and Treatments of the Body -- Burial Practices -- People-Objects Relations -- The Challenge of Change -- Five The Changing Bronze Age Body: Introduction of Case Studies -- Hungary: Early Cremations and Regional Variations -- Pitten: Experimentation and Within-Cemetery Variation -- Vollmarshausen: Conformity and Post-Funerary Engagement -- Bavaria: Objects and Pyre Debris (Zuchering, Grundfeld) -- Marburg: Mounds and Memory Spaces -- Lüneburg Area: Transformation of People-Object Relations -- Denmark: Complex Choreographies in Burial Mounds.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009247399
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig, 1954 - Death and the body in Bronze Age Europe Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN 9781009247399
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009247382
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Bronzezeit
;
Bestattung
;
Bestattungsritus
;
Gräberfeld
;
Urnenfeld
;
Bayern
;
Hessen
;
Niedersachsen
;
Grabbeigabe
;
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
;
Archäologie
Author information:
Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina 1977-
