Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022
Series:Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Subjects:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Literature: history and criticism
agency of the dead
archaeological theory
Archaeological Traces in Beowulf
burial monuments
dead-body politics
Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries
Historic Sources about the Uses of the Dead
History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments
Iron Age in Northern Central Europe
literary studies
Literary Tombs in the Twelfth Century
mass graves
medieval relics
memory studies
mortuary archaeology
National Identity through Merovingian Burials
prehistoric graves
Shakespearean Exhumations
Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik
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