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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction Ritual, Change, and Funerary Practices J. Rasmus Brandt; Chapter 1: A Proper Burial Some Thoughts on Changes in Mortuary Ritual, and how Archaeology can begin to understand them Liv Nilsson Stutz; Chapter 2: Neolithic and Copper Age Mortuary Practices in the Italian Peninsula Change of Meaning or Change of Medium? Andrea Dolfini; Chapter 3: Change and Continuity in Early Bronze Age Mortuary Rites A Case Study from Northumberland Chris Fowler. |
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Chapter 4: Causes and Contexts of Long-Term Ritual Change The Iron Age to Early Medieval Cemetery of Klin-Yar (North Caucasus, Russia) Heinrich Härke & Andrej BelinskijChapter 5: Passage to the Underworld Continuity or Change in Etruscan Funerary Ideology and Practices (6th-2nd Century BC)?1 J. Rasmus Brandt; Chapter 6: "Whether by Decay or Fire Consumed ... ":1 Cremation in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor Sven Ahrens; Chapter 7: A 'Civilised' Death? The Interpretation of Provincial Roman Grave Good Assemblages John Pearce. |
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Chapter 8: Friends, Foes and Hybrids The Transformation of Burial Ritualin Roman Dalmatia Marina PrusacChapter 9: Commemorating the Dead in North Africa Continuity and Change fromthe Second to the Fifth Century CE Eric Rebillard; Chapter 10: Churches and Graves of the Early Byzantine Period in Scythia Minor and Moesia Secunda* The Development of a Christian Topography at the Periphery of the Roman Empire Irina Achim; Chapter 11: Social Anxiety and the Re-Emergence of Furnished Burial in Post Roman Albania William Bowden. |
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Chapter 12: Changing Rituals and Reinventing Tradition: The burnt Viking Ship at Myklebostad, Western Norway Terje OestigaardChapter 13: Transforming Medieval Beliefs The Significance of Bodily Resurrection to Medieval Burial Rituals Roberta Gilchrist; Chapter 14: Changing Beliefs About the Dead Body in Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland Sarah Tarlow; Index. |
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The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the cor. |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Roland, Håkon.
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Prusac, Marina.
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Print version: Brandt, J. Rasmus. Death and changing rituals. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014 9781782976394 (DLC) 2014032027 |
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9781782976424 electronic book |
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1782976426 electronic book |
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9781782976400 electronic book |
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178297640X electronic book |
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9781782976417 |
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1782976418 |
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9781782976394 |
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