Assaf Nativ

Prioritizing Death and Society (eBook, PDF)

The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Death, grief and funerary practices are central to any analysis of social, anthropological, artistic and religious worlds. However, cemeteries - the key conceptual and physical site for death - have rarely been the focus of archaeological research. 'Prioritizing Death and Society' examines the structure, organisation and significance of cemeteries in the Southern Levant, one of the key areas for both migration and settlement in both prehistory and antiquity. Spanning 6,000 years, from the Chalcolithic to the present day, 'Prioritizing Death and Society' presents new research to analyse the formation and regional variation in cemeteries. By examining both ancient and present-day - nationally Jewish - cemeteries, the study reveals the commonalities and differences in the ways in which death has been and continues to be ritualised, memorialised and understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317544326
• Artikelnr.: 41501097

Autorenporträt

Assaf Nativ is a post-doctoral fellow in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, and is a staff member in the publication project of the Iron Age Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Binary oppositions
logical gaps and thick descriptions
Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries
3. Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks
twitches and faked twitches
4. Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries
5. Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries
6. Dark
damp and deep: karstic-cave systems
7. Funerary structures
8. Exceptions
outliers and misfits
9. Structured deposition and depositional structures
Part III: Contemporary cemeteries
10. An archaeology of us
11. The raw materials: from matt to lustre
from grey to colour
12. Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories
13. Tombstone elaboration: personal expressions
14. Spatial patterns: between institutional policy and interpersonal spontaneity
15. Intersecting discourses
Part IV: Conclusion
16. Prioritizing death and society
17. Epilogue
Appendix: Gazetteers of cemeteries
Notes
Bibliography
Index