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Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

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In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and...

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Other Authors: Weiss-Krejci, Estella (Editor), Becker, Sebastian (Editor), Schwyzer, Philip (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022
Series:Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
Subjects:
Archaeology
Anthropology
Literature: history & criticism
mortuary archaeology
dead-body politics
memory studies
agency of the dead
archaeological theory
literary studies
medieval relics
mass graves
burial monuments
prehistoric graves
History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments
Iron Age in Northern Central Europe
Historic Sources about the Uses of the Dead
Literary Tombs in the Twelfth Century
Archaeological Traces in Beowulf
National Identity through Merovingian Burials
Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik
Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries
Shakespearean Exhumations
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