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

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 Chapm...

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Published in:Oriental Institute seminars
Contributors: Laneri, Nicola (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago, Ill. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago c 2007
In: Oriental Institute seminars (3)
Series/Journal:Oriental Institute seminars 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Antiquity / Cult of the dead
B Near East / Roman Empire / Greece (Antiquity) / Classical antiquity / Cult of the dead
Further subjects:B Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient (Mediterranean Region) Congresses
B Conference program 2006 (Chicago, Ill)
B Conference program 2006 (Chicago)
B Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient (Middle East) Congresses
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary: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
Item Description:Literaturangaben
ISBN:1885923503