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Communities in Conflict: Death and the Contest for Social Order in the Euphrates River Valley
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Death and any act consequent to it (in particular the funeral and burial), is not only highly ritualized in most societies, but it also carries strong ideological as well as social meaning. This is so even when the disposition of the deceased is hasty or rudimentary1 and it is certainly so in third millennium BCE Syria, where archaeological and textual data both indicate that the dead embody complex representations of society, world views and religious beliefs all at the same time. Such representations are largely produced through mortuary practices, which include not only treatment of the ...
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Making sense of Merovingian burials.(Caring for body & soul: burial and the afterlife in the Merovingian world)(Merovingian mortuary archaeology and the making of the early Middle Ages)(Book Review)
; ...pounds sterling]. The evidence for mortuary practices in western Europe between the fifth...In Caring, Effros highlights how mortuary practices articulated social competition among...Merovingian, the emphasis is on how mortuary practices have been interpreted--and misinterpreted...
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Mortuary practices in the Persian period of the Levant
; ...hill country assemblages) and diverse mortuary practices. Perhaps we can better identify these...articulate the intent behind their mortuary practices. The subject of mortuary practices in the Persian period of the Levant...
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From the Editor
; ...Amarna letters and Abusir) to central (Catalhoyuk) and northwest (Hisarlik) Anatolia to Syria (Tell Banat). (N.B., Anne Porter's study of Tell Banat is a complement to the previous issue of NEA [65.2] dedicated to the archaeology of death.) Yet...
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Hospitality at wakes and funerals in Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: some evidence from the written record.(Research Article)
; ...1999, 93). Clodagh Tait's study of mortuary practices and commemoration of the dead for...population, sometimes dealt with mortuary practices, including the provision of hospitality...had little sympathy for many of the mortuary practices of its members but, due to its proscribed...
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(book review)
; ...interments. Specialized papers have also been published on mortuary practices or on the different rituals accompanying the disposal...wanted people to believe. Parker Pearson has been studying mortuary practices since he was a student in Cambridge. Here he returns to...
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Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
; ...chapter Galloway addresses changes in European and native mortuary practices and developments that led to the creation of the Native...Choctaw culture but also because it is a historical study of mortuary practices rather than a critique of a specific methodology with...
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Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative.(Book review)
; ...chapter Galloway addresses changes in European and native mortuary practices and developments that led to the creation of the Native...Choctaw culture but also because it is a historical study of mortuary practices rather than a critique of a specific methodology with...
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Death and society: a Marxist approach.
; ...attention to theoretical premises concerning the study of mortuary practices. The theoretical-methodological approach known as the...The new sub-discipline was based on the argument that mortuary practices are an expression of social reality in all its complexity...
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; ...Brown 1971) for a new approach to the social dimensions of mortuary practices. In keeping with the western world's current obsession...of comparing the complexity of the material culture of mortuary practices with social complexity, rather than comparing the actual...
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Bodies of Vital Matter: Notions of Life Force and Transcendence in Traditional Southern Italy.(Book Review)
; ...also identified in cyclical family-naming traditions and mortuary practices, especially mummification and double burial (disinterred...for Easter resurrection. Comparisons with ancient Roman mortuary practices, cults of Ceres and Pythagorean dietary restrictions are...
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