Sarah Tarlow - The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DEATH AND BURIAL

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF

Edited by
SARAH TARLOW
and
LIV NILSSON STUTZ

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1. Beautiful Things and Bones of Desire: Emerging Issues in the Archaeology of Death and Burial
LIV NILSSON STUTZ AND SARAH TARLOW

2. Cultural History, Race, and Peoples
ADAM STOUT

3. Did Prehistoric Man Bury his Dead?: Early Debates on Palaeolithic Burials in a National Context
NATHALIE RICHARD

4. Death, Burial, and Social Representation
ROBERT CHAPMAN

5. Death and the Cultural Entanglements of the Experienced, the Learned, the Expressed, the Contested, and the Imagined
SUSAN KUS

6. The Bioarchaeology of Health and Well-Being: Its Contribution to Understanding the Past
CHARLOTTE ROBERTS

7. The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial
BARBARA BRAMANTI

8. Stable Isotope Analysis of Humans
GUNILLA ERIKSSON

9. Cremation: Excavation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Material from Cremation-Related Contexts
JACQUELINE I. MC KINLEY

10. Contextualizing Grave Goods: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Implications
FREDRIK EKENGREN

11. Death, Memory, and Material Culture: Catalytic Commemoration and the Cremated Dead
HOWARD WILLIAMS

12. African Perspectives on Death, Burial, and Mortuary Archaeology
DAVID EDWARDS

13. The Place of Veneration in Early South Asian Buddhism
LARS FOGELIN

14. The Archaeology of Death and Burial in the Islamic World
ANDREW PETERSEN

15. Burial of the Christian Dead in the Later Middle Ages
DEIRDRE OSULLIVAN

16. The Unburied Dead
ESTELLA WEISS-KREJCI

17. Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record
JULIEN RIEL-SALVATORE AND CLAUDINE GRAVEL-MIGUEL

18. Power and Society: Mesolithic Europe
CHANTAL CONNELLER

19. Archaeological Study of Mortuary Practices in the Eastern United States
JAMES BROWN

20. The Living and the Dead in Later Prehistoric Iberia
ROBERT CHAPMAN

21. The Powerful Dead of the Inca
PETER KAULICKE

22. Land Ownership and Landscape Belief: Introduction and Contexts
JOSHUA WRIGHT

23. Megaliths in North-West Europe: The Cosmology of Sacred Landscapes
MAGDALENA S. MIDGLEY

24. Creating Death: An Archaeology of Dying
JOHN ROBB

25. Treating Bodies: Transformative and Communicative Practices
ALEXANDER GRAMSCH

26. Preserving the Body
MELANIE GILES

27. Cremations in Culture and Cosmology
TERJE OESTIGAARD

28. Identities in Transformation: Identities, Funerary Rites, and the Mortuary Process
CHRIS FOWLER

29. Death and Gender
JOANNA SOFAER AND MARIE LOUISE STIG SRENSEN

30. Ancient Identities: Age, Gender, and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Burials
GILLIAN SHEPHERD

31. Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Funerary Commemoration: Case Studies from the Empires Frontiers
MAUREEN CARROLL

32. Engendering Ancestors through Death Ritual in Ancient China
ALICE YAO

33. Death, Emotion, and the Household among the Late Moche
ERICA HILL

34. Belief and the Archaeology of Death
SARAH TARLOW

35. Insights into Early Mortuary Practices of Homo
ERELLA HOVERS AND ANNA BELFER-COHEN

36. Equipping and Stripping the Dead: A Case Study on the Procurement, Compilation, Arrangement, and Fragmentation of Grave Inventories in New Kingdom Thebes
CLAUDIA NSER

37. Sapient Trouble-Tombs?: Archaeologists Moral Obligations to the Dead
GEOFFREY SCARRE

38. Looting Matters: Early Bronze Age Cemeteries of Jordans Southeast Dead Sea Plain in the Past and Present
MORAG M. KERSEL AND MEREDITH S. CHESSON

39. How Ancients Become Ammunition: Politics and Ethics of the Human Skeleton
JOE WATKINS

40. In Search of Others: The History and Legacy of Race Collections
CRESSIDA FFORDE

41. Repatriation, Reburial, and Biological Research in Australia: Rhetoric and Practice
COLIN PARDOE

42. The Archaeology and Material Culture of Modern Military Death
LAYLA RENSHAW

43. The Exhumation of Civilian Victims of Conflict and Human Rights Abuses: Political, Ethical, and Theoretical Considerations
LAYLA RENSHAW

44. Contested Burials: The Dead as Witnesses, Victims, and Tools
LIV NILSSON STUTZ