Archaeologists and the Dead
Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 June 2016
- ISBN 9780198753537
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 241x168x28 mm
- Weight 946 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about how archaeologists deal with the dead, and how the ancient dead in turn have a lasting affect upon us. It questions the purpose of working with human remains, not just in the UK, but wider afield on the Continent and in the US. Above all, it brings to the fore the many personal and professional challenges of working with the dead.
MoreLong description:
This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice - disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences.
Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organisational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues which have hitherto often remained 'unspoken' amongst the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as 'death-workers' of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context which highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.
Howard Williams and Melanie Giles have produced a book that will be of interest to professionals and general readers alike.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society
Part 1: Investigating The Dead
Questions Raised in Excavating the Recent Dead
Personhood and Re-Embodiment in Osteological Practice
Separating the Emotions: Archaeological Mentalities in Central Italian Funerary Archaeology
Slave Trade Archaeology and the Public: The Excavation of a 'Liberated African' Graveyard on St Helena
Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of The Great War
Bones Without Barriers: The Social Impact of Digging the Dead
Part 2: Displaying the Dead
Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains
Displaying the Dead: The English Heritage Experience
The Immortals: Prehistoric Individuals as Ideological and Therapeutic Tools in our Time
Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum: A Discussion of Authority, Authorship and Agendas in the Human Remains Debate
Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Using the Dead to Fight the Battles of the Living
To Gaze Upon The Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Political Process In Scandinavia and the United States
Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum
Part 3: Public Mortuary Archaeology
Contemporary Pagans and the Study of the Ancestors
'Tomb to Give Away': The Significance of Graves and Dead Bodies in Present-Day Austria
Digging The Dead in a Digital Media Age
Writing About Death, Mourning and Emotion: Archaeology and Creativity
Reconstructing Death: The Chariot Burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire
Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society
