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

Weitere Verfasser: Laneri, Nicola
Morris, Ellen F.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007.
Umfang/Format: xvii, 317 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; 3
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Mittelmeerregion
Parallelausgabe: Performing death, (electronic version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.