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Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
317 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am24.06.20221st ed. 2022
Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships.mehr
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KlappentextDrawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships.
Zusammenfassung
Is highly topical and offers a multi-regional focus

Advances the dialogue between (bio) archaeologists, literary scientists, and social anthropologists

Takes a diachronic approach; examining cases from prehistory to the present

This is an open access book
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-03958-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2022
Erscheinungsdatum24.06.2022
Auflage1st ed. 2022
ReiheBioarchaeology and Social Theory
Seiten317 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXII, 317 p. 1 illus.
Artikel-Nr.16526443
Rubriken
GenreGeschichte/Politik

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Agency: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Visitors, Usurpers, and Renovators: Glimpses from the History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments.- Chapter 3. Literary Tombs and Archaeological Knowledge in the Twelfth-Century Romances of Antiquit.- Chapter 4. Anachronic Entanglements: Archaeological Traces and the Event in Beowulf.- Chapter 5. The Distant Past of a Distant Past ...: Perception and Appropriation of Deep History during the Iron Ages in Northern Germany (Pre-Roman Iron Age, Roman Iron Age, and Migration Period).- Chapter 6. In Search of an Acceptable Past: History, Archaeology, and Looted´ Graves in the Construction of the Frankish Early Middle Ages.- Chapter 7. From Saint to Anthropological Specimen: The Transformation of the Alleged Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik.- Chapter 8. Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries and Twentieth-Century Mass Graves.- Chapter 9. The Graves When They Open, Will Be Witnesses Against Thee: MassBurial and the Agency of the Dead in Thomas Dekker´s Plague Pamphlets.- Chapter 10. Shakespearean Exhumations: Richard III, The Princes in the Tower, and the Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet.- Chapter 11. Cemetery Enchanted, encore: Natural Burial in France and Beyond.- Chapter 12. The Cemetery and Ossuary at Sedlec near Kutná Hora: Reflections on the Agency of the Dead.mehr

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Autor


Estella Weiss-Krejci is an archaeologist and social anthropologist. She received a PhD and a venia docendi from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include ancient Maya water management and mortuary behavior, and dead-body politics in prehistoric, medieval, and post-medieval Europe. She has been a recipient of grants awarded by the Austrian Science Fund, the Portuguese Science and Technology Fund, and the Fulbright Commission. Her research results have been published in peer reviewed international journals and edited books. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Austrian PI of the HERA / EU Horizon 2020 DEEPDEAD project (Deploying the Dead: Artefacts and Human Bodies in Socio-Cultural Transformations). 
Sebastian Becker gained a first-class undergraduate degree in Archaeology & Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. As part of an EU-funded research project, he completed a successful PhD, also at the University of Cambridge, focusing on later prehistoric art inCentral Europe. His research took him to France and, more recently, Austria, where he has been researching the uses and re-use of (pre-)historic bodies as part of the HERA / EU Horizon 2020 DEEPDEAD project (2016-2019). He currently lives in Berlin.

Philip Schwyzer is Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter. He received his BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Interested in links between literature and archaeology, he has led interdisciplinary projects including Speaking with the Dead´ (2011-2014), The Past in its Place´ (2012-2016), and the HERA / EU Horizon 2020 DEEPDEAD project (2016-2019). His books include Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III´ (2013), and Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature´ (2007).
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