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Staging Death

Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Michael John Boyd (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 398 Seiten

2016
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-047578-4 (ISBN)

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Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Michael J. Boyd, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	b/w line drawings
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	915 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Death • Landscape • Landschaft • Performance • Performativität • Tod
ISBN-10	3-11-047578-2 / 3110475782
ISBN-13	978-3-11-047578-4 / 9783110475784
Zustand	Neuware