ISBN:
9781316378625
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 443 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Death rituals, social order, and the archaeology of immortality in the ancient world
DDC:
306.909/01
Keywords:
Death Social aspects
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
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Death ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Archäologie
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Antike
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Bestattung
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Ritual
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Soziologie
Abstract:
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 'The Unanswered Question': Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death -- Part I Intimations of Mortality -- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective -- Part III Constructing the Ancestors -- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order -- Part V Materiality and Memory -- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
Abstract:
Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts -- Index -- Introduction -- Cognitive Archaeology -- The Place of Religion in the Study of Early Responses to Death -- Encountering Death: The Material Evidence -- Intimations of Mortality: Before Homo Sapiens -- Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism, the Collective, and the House -- Constructing the Ancestors -- Materiality and Memory -- Hierarchy and the Social Order -- Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing other Worlds -- Bibliography -- 2 Non-Human Animal Responses towards the Dead and Death: A Comparative Approach
Abstract:
3 Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Mortuary Behaviours and the Origins of Ritual Burial -- 4 Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices: Reflection of Ethnic Affiliation... -- 5 Gathering of the Dead? The Early Neolithic Sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey -- 6 Death and Architecture: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Burials at WF16, Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan -- 7 Corporealities of Death in the Central Andes (ca. 9000-2000 BC) -- 8 Mediating the Dominion of Death in Prehistoric Malta -- 9 House Societies and Founding Ancestors in Early Neolithic Britain
Abstract:
10 Constructing Ancestors in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 11 Different Kinds of Dead: Presencing Andean Expired Beings -- 12 Putting Death in Its Place: The Idea of the Cemetery -- 13 Becoming Mycenaean? -- 14 Life and Death in Late Prehistoric to Early Historic Mesopotamia -- 15 The Big Sleep: Early Maya Mortuary Practice -- 16 De-Paradoxisation of Paradoxes by Referring to Death as... -- 17 Death and Mortuary Rituals in Mainland Southeast Asia: From Hunter-Gatherers to the God Kings of Angkor -- 18 How Did the Mycenaeans Remember? Death, Matter, and Memory in the Early Mycenaean World
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19 Eternal Glory: The Origins of Eastern Jade Burial and Its Far-Reaching Influence -- 20 Eventful Deaths - Eventful Lives? Bronze Age Mortuary Practices... -- 21 Northern Iroquoian Deathways and the Re-imagination of Community -- 22 Locating a Sense of Immortality in Early Egyptian Cemeteries -- 23 Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Mortuary Traditions... -- 24 Killing Mummies: On Inka Epistemology and Imperial Power -- 25 'Death Shall Have No Dominion': A Response -- 26 Comments: Death Shall Have No Dominion -- 27 The Muse of Archaeology -- Introduction -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes
Abstract:
References
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preface: "The present volume seeks to move such considerations to the fore, drawing upon the papers prepared for the symposium held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge from 11– 14 April 2012."
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