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

• Main Authors: Weiss-Krejci, Estella, Becker, Sebastian, Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2022; Springer International Publishing AG; European Union's Horizon 2020
• Edition: 1
• Series: Bioarchaeology and Social Theory
• Subjects: agency of the dead; Anthropology; archaeological theory; Archaeological Traces in Beowulf; Archaeology; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; Book Industry Communication; burial monuments; dead-body politics; Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries; Historic Sources about the Uses of the Dead; History and Archaeology; History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments; Humanities; Iron Age in Northern Central Europe; literary studies; Literary Tombs in the Twelfth Century; Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literature: history and criticism; mass graves; medieval relics; memory studies; mortuary archaeology; National Identity through Merovingian Burials; prehistoric graves; Shakespearean Exhumations; Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik; Society & social sciences; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology & anthropology; Sociology and anthropology; thema EDItEUR

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...