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Item Number: 121616
Title: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
Author: Tarlow, Sarah ; Liv Nilsson Stutz (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199569069
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 946pp., 125 illus. Contents: 1. Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial , Liv Nilsson Stutz and Sarah Tarlow . 2. Cultural History, Race, and Peoples , Adam Stout . 3. Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Deada Early Debates on Palaeolithic Burials in a National Context|? Nathalie Richard . 4. Death, Burial, and Social Representation , Robert Chapman . 5. Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the Imagined , Susan Kus . 6. The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-being: Its Contribution to Understanding the Past , Charlotte Roberts . 7. The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial , Barbara Bramanti . 8. Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans , Gunilla Eriksson . 9. Cremation: Excavation, Analysis and Interpretation of Material from Cremation-related Contexts , Jacqueline McKinley . 10. Contextualising Grave Goods: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications , Fredrik Ekengren . 11. Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic Commemoration and the Cremated Dead , Howard Williams . 12. African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology , David Edwards . 13. The Place of Veneration in Early South Asican Buddhism , Lars Fogelin . 14. The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Islamic World , Andrew Petersen . 15. Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later Middle Ages , Deirdre O Sullivan . 16. The Unburied Dead , Estella Weiss-Krejci . 17. Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record , Julien Riel-Salvatore and Claudine Gravel-Miguel . 18. Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe , Chantal Coneller . 19. Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States , James Brown . 20. The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric Iberia , Robert Chapman . 21. The Powerful Dead of the Inca , Peter Kaulicke . 22. Land-ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction and Contexts , Joshua Wright . 23. Megaliths in North-West Europe: the Cosmology of Sacred Landscapes , Magdalena Midgley . 24. Creating Death: an Archaeology of Dying , John Robb . 25. Treating Bodies Transformative and Communicative Practices , Alexander Gramsch . 26. Preserving the Body , Melanie Giles . 27. Cremations in Culture and Cosmology , Terje Oestigaard . 28. Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary Rites, and the Mortuary Process , Chris Fowler . 29. Death and Gender , Joanna Sofaer and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen . 30. Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials , Gillian Shepherd . 31. Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empire s Frontiers , Maureen Carroll . 32. Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient China , Alice Yao . 33. Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche , Erica Hill . 34. Belief and the Archaeology of Death , Sarah Tarlow . 35. Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo , Erella Hovers and Anna Belfer-Cohen . 36. Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case-study on the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and FragSHmentSHation of Grave Inventories in New Kingdom Thebes , Claudia Naeser . 37. Sapient trouble-tombs'a Archaeologists'Mmoral Obligations to the Dead|? Geoffrey Scarre . 38. Looting Matters Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordan's southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and Present , Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesson . 39. How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics of the Human Skeleton , Joe Watkins . 40. In Search of Others: the History and Legacy of 'race' collections , Cressida Fforde . 41. Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in Australia: Rhetoric and Practice , Colin Pardoe . 42. The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern Military Death , Layla Renshaw . 43. The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical Considerations , Layla Renshaw . 44. Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses, Victims, and Tools , Liv Nilsson Stutz.

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