Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium
"The impressive geographical, temporal, and topical coverage makes this volume by far the best of its kind to appear in recent years."--George R. Milner, Pennsylvania State University \ "A kaleidoscopic collection of studies with fascinating insights into the myriad and bizarre ways that our species has treated its dead ... global coverage of human interactions with our dead, past and present ...an indispensable reference for all scholars interested in death and burial."--Michael Parker...
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This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research. Drawing inspiration from ethnohistory, ethnography, bioarchaeology, and sociocultural anthropology, the authors focus on themes of gender, ancestorhood, ritual violence, individual agency, space and placement, and extended and secondary mortuary ceremonialism. They also expand the interdisciplinary focus of mortuary practices and reassess previous anthropological theories. No previously published work on the archaeology of mortuary remains presents such a range of examples of ritual practices through time and around the globe. Because of its wide scope and interdisciplinary approach, Interacting with the Dead will be indispensable not only to archaeologists and anthropologists but also across the social sciences and humanities and to all who study cross-cultural rituals.
1Introduction1Sect. ITheories, time, and space132The archaeology of death as anthropology153Mortuary analysis : a matter of time?254Gender and agency in mortuary fashion415Chiribaya political economy : a bioarchaeological perspective666Social dimensions of mortuary space81Sect. IIBodies and souls937Corrupting flesh : reexamining Hertz's perspective on mummification and cremation978Forgetting the dead, remembering enemies1079The mortuary "laying-in" crypts of the Hopewell site : beyond the funerary paradigm12410Mummies, cults, and ancestors : the Chinchorro mummies of the South Central Andes14211Secondary burial practices in Hohokam cremations15012Excarnation, evisceration, and exhumation in medieval and post-medieval Europe15513Death and remembrance in medieval France : a case study from the Augustinian Monastery of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons17314Mortuary practices and ritual use of human bone in Tibet190Sect. IIISacrifice, violence, and veneration20515Understanding veneration and violation in the archaeological record20716The bioarchaeology and taphonomy of mortuary ritual on the Sepik Coast, Papua New Guinea22817Were Nasca trophy heads war trophies or revered ancestors? : insights from the Kroeber collection25118Human sacrifice and postmortem modification at the Pyramid of the Moon, Moche Valley, Peru27719Mortuary pathways leading to the Cenote at Chichen Itza29020Putting the dead to work : an examination of the use of human bone in prehistoric Guam305
