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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past?
This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeologies of Remembrance
Book Subtitle: Death and Memory in Past Societies
Editors: Howard Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9222-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47451-4Published: 31 January 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4845-0Published: 20 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-9222-2Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Anthropology, History, general