Living through the dead burial and commemoration in the classical world
"Living Through the Dead investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Oakville, CT :
Oxbow Books
[2011]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Studies in funerary archaeology ; volume 5. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47051991*spi |
| Sumario: | "Living Through the Dead investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world. A diverse set of archaeologically informed approaches is used, including visual reception, detailed analysis of excavated remains, landscape, and post-classical reflections and artefactual, documentary and pictorial evidence is employed. The nine papers present recent research by some of the leading voices on the subject, as well as some fresh perspectives. Case studies come from Thermopylae, the Bosporan kingdom, Athens, Republican Rome, Pompeii and Egypt. As a collected volume, they provide thematically linked investigations of key issues in ritual, memory and (self)presentation. As such, this volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and academics with specialist interests in the archaeology of the Classical world and also more broadly, as a source of comparative material, to people working on issues related to the archaeology of death and commemoration."--Book jacket. |
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| Notas: | Outgrowth of a conference held at the University of Sheffield in 2006. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (xii, 209 páginas) : ilustraciones, mapas |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781842175576 9781842175552 |
