Archaeologies of Remembrance Death and Memory in Past Societies

How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Williams, Howard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Building from Memory
  • Rates of (Ex)change
  • Technologies of Remembrance
  • Tales from the Dead
  • Remembering Rome
  • Objects without a past?
  • Iconoclasm, belief and memory in early medieval Wales
  • Memories in Stone
  • Memory, Salvation and Ambiguity
  • Remembering and Forgetting the Medieval Dead
  • Memories of the Early Medieval Past
  • Dyster står dösen