Bereavement and Commemoration An Archaeology of Mortality,9780631206149

Bereavement and Commemoration An Archaeology of Mortality

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631206149
ISBN10: 0631206140
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-25
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of figures
viii
List of tables
x
Preface xi
A Historical Archaeology of Death
1(19)
Towards an Archaeology of Bereavement and Commemoration: Death, Emotion and Metaphor
20(30)
Changing Commemorative Practices in Orkney
50(26)
A Living Memory and a Corrupting Corpse
76(32)
Remembering the Dead in the Nineteenth Century: A Love Story
108(39)
War and Remembrance
147(24)
Loved and Lost
171(14)
Glossary 185(2)
References 187(17)
Index 204

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