Bereavement and Commemoration

An Archaeology of Mortality

Sarah Tarlow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1999
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-20613-2 (ISBN)

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Provides a historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the end of the 20th century. This text draws on literary and historical sources as well as on material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards death and remembrance in Britain and the USA.

Sarah Tarlow is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where she teaches courses in the archaeology of death, later historical periods and aspects of archaeological method and theory. Since receiving her PhD in archaeology from Cambridge University, she has published articles on the later historical archaeology of Britain and on the archaeology of death. Her current research interests are in archaeologies of the human body and in utopian communities. She is co-editor of The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain (1998).

List of Figures. List of tables.

Preface.

1. A historical archaeology of death.

2. Towards an archaeology of bereavement and commemoration: death, emotion and metaphor.

3. Changing commemorative practices in Orkney.

4. A living memory and a corrupting corpse.

5. Remembering the dead in the nineteenth century: a love story.

6. War and remembrance.

7. Loved and lost.

Glossary.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.6.1999
Reihe/Serie	Social Archaeology
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-20613-2 / 0631206132
ISBN-13	978-0-631-20613-2 / 9780631206132
Zustand	Neuware