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Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period

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Authors:
  1. Harold Mytum

    1. University of York, York, UK

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  • Focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments
  • Covers some below ground archaeology

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-11

  3. Folk Traditions and High Culture

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    Pages 13-33

  4. A Maturing Industry

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    Pages 35-81

  5. A Marginalized Activity

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    Pages 83-103

  6. Production and Consumption

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    Pages 105-120

  7. Social Structures

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    Pages 121-135

  8. Identities

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    Pages 137-155

  9. Attitudes toward Death, the Body and Remembrance

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    Pages 157-178

  10. Carrying Out a Study

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    Pages 179-210

  11. Conservation, Education, and Display

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    Pages 211-228

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-274
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About this book

Burial grounds strike an immediate chord with all who visit them. They are land­ scapes full of pathos and cultural associations which many find attractive, though a minority feel are too morbid to deserve detailed attention. This book is designed to offer a framework for studying historic burial ground monuments, and contains a certain amount of information regarding below-ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. Moreover, from a research perspective above and below ground archaeology together can throw considerable light on the process of dying, body disposal and commemoration that formed a continuum for those involved. However, the more easily accessible graveyard memorials can be used to study many aspects of past culture beyond that directly associated with death, and they are the focus of the book. Most people who become interested in historic graveyard memorials come to the subject via the material itself. Only rarely does a research question get posed, and graveyard data seem like an appropriate arena for investigation. This has the advantage that many researchers have some ideas about the data available, but the disadvantage that they may not have clear questions to ask of it, nor how to set their discoveries in a wider intellectual context.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, York, UK

    Harold Mytum

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period

  • Authors: Harold Mytum

  • Series Title: Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9038-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48075-1Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48076-8Published: 31 December 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9038-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5752

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 274

  • Topics: Archaeology, Life Sciences, general, Anthropology

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