Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean /

Other Authors: Laneri, Nicola
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007
Series:Oriental Institute seminars 3
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Online Access:http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/ois3.pdf
Table of Contents:
  • An archaeology of funerary rituals / Nicola Laneri
  • Sacrifice for the state / E.F. Morris
  • Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria / G.M. Schwartz
  • Mortuary rituals, social relations, and identity in southeast Spain in the late third to early second millennia B.C. / Robert Chapman
  • Combined efforts till death / Massimo Cultraro
  • Remembering and forgetting in early bronze age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea plain, Jordan / M.S. Chesson
  • Etruscan style of dying / Alessandro Naso
  • The politics of loss / Adam T. Smith
  • Sumerian funerary rituals in context / Dina Katz
  • Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson
  • Death of a household / Susan Pollock
  • Achilles and the sallis wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford
  • Ritualizing death in Republican Rome / John Pollini
  • Burial treatment as transformations of bodily ideology / John Robb
  • Mortuary practices for the third millennium : 1966-2000 / James A. Brown.