Archaeologists and the dead : mortuary archaeology in contemporary society /

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice - dissemi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Howard, 1972- (Editor ), Giles, Melanie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Human remains (Archaeology) > Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Congresses.
Death > Social aspects > Congresses.
Memorials > Social aspects > Congresses.
Social archaeology > Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Congresses.
Archaeologists > Congresses.
Archaeology > Social aspects > Congresses.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Collection and preservation.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation.
Burial.
Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
Burial
Restes humains (Archéologie) > Aspect moral.
Restes humains (Archéologie) > Collections et conservation.
Restes humains (Archéologie) > Rapatriement.
Sépulture.
Mort > Aspect social.
Objets exposés > Aspect moral.
Restes humains (Archéologie) > Congrès.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500 > Congrès.
Archéologie sociale > Congrès.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Congrès.
Archéologues > Congrès.
Archéologie > Aspect social > Congrès.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Death > Social aspects
Human remains (Archaeology) > Repatriation
Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects
Conference papers and proceedings
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Mortuary archaeology in contemporary society / Melanie Giles, Howard Williams
  • Questions raised in excavating the recent dead / Sian Anthony
  • Personhood and re-embodiment in osteological practice / John McClelland, Jessica I. Cerezo-Román
  • Separating the emotions : archaeological mentalities in central Italian funerary archaeology / Ulla Rajala
  • Slave-trade archaeology and the public : the excavation of a "liberated African" graveyard on St. Helena / Andrew Pearson, Ben Jeffs
  • Habeas corpus : contested ownership of casualties of the Great War / Martin Brown
  • Bones without barriers : the social impact of digging the dead / Faye Sayer, Duncan Sayer
  • Museum practice and the display of human remains / Hedley Swain
  • Displaying the dead : the English Heritage experience / Sarah Tatham
  • The immortals : prehistoric individuals as ideological and theraputic tools in our time / Nina Nordström.
  • Covering the mummies at the Manchester Museum : a discussion of authority, authorship, and agendas in the human remains debate / Karen Exell
  • Making an exhibition of ourselves : using the dead to fight the battles of the living / Tiffany Jenkins
  • To gaze upon the dead : the exhibition of human remains as cultural practice and political process in Scandinavia and the USA / Liv Nilsson Stutz
  • Firing the imagination : cremation in the museum / Howard Williams
  • Contemporary pagans and the study of the ancestors / William Rathouse
  • Tomb to give away" : the significance of graves, dead bodies in present-day Austria / Estella Weiss-Krejci
  • Digging the dead in a digital media age / Duncan Sayer, Tony Walter
  • Writing about death, mourning, and emotion : archaeology, imagination, and creativity / Trevor Kirk
  • Reconstructing death : the chariot burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire / Melanie Giles
  • Reflections on intersections of mortuary archaeology and contemporary society / Lynne Goldstein.

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