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Staging death : funerary performance, architecture and landscape in the Aegean
"Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An 'archaeology of place' attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin
: De Gruyter
, 2016
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| Online Access: | lizenzpflichtig Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Staging death |
| Author Notes: | edited by Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Michael J. Boyd |
| Summary: | "Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An 'archaeology of place' attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place"--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource illustrations (some color), maps |
| ISBN: | 3110480573 9783110480573 9783110480580 3110480581 9783110479195 3110479192 9783110475784 3110475782 |
