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 mortuary perspe...

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Other Authors: Dakouri-Hild, Anastasia (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Boyd, Michael J. (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter , [2016]
Subjects:
Bronzezeit
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Author Notes:Edited by Anastasia Dakouri-Hild and Michael J. Boyd
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Staging Death: an Introduction
  • Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean
  • Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality
  • Funerary Ritual-Architectural Events in the Temple Tomb and the Royal Tomb at Knossos
  • Fields of Action in Mycenaean Funerary Practices
  • Politics of Death at Mitrou: Two Prepalatial Elite Tombs in a Landscape of Power
  • Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes
  • Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic period: Spatial Diversity in Practice
  • The Practice of Funerary Destruction in the Southwest Peloponnese
  • A Roof for the Dead: Tomb Design and the ‘Domestication of Death’ in Mycenaean Funerary Architecture
  • Placing Bodies, Embodying Places
  • Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis
  • Mortuary Practices in the Middle Bronze Age at Kouphovouno: Vernacular Dimensions of the Mortuary Ritual
  • ‘Death Is Not the End’: Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi
  • Biographies and Memories of Place
  • A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical Significance: the Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete
  • From Performing Death to Venerating the Ancestors at Lebena Yerokambos, Crete
  • Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers’ Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power?
  • From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes
  • Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs During the Bronze Age
  • Structuring Space, Performing Rituals, Creating Memories: Towards a Cognitive Map of Early Mycenaean Funerary Behaviour
  • Pollution and Purity in the Argolid and Corinthia During the Early Iron Age: the Burials
  • Bios
  • Index

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