This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to in...

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Hauptverfasser:	Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig 1954- (VerfasserIn), Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	Dead / Social aspects / Europe / History / To 1500 Human remains (Archaeology) / Europe Human body / Social aspects / Europe / History / To 1500 Death / Social aspects / Europe / History / To 1500 Burial / Europe / History / To 1500 Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Bronze age Bronzezeit Bestattung Brauch Tod Europa
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Zusammenfassung:	This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional
Beschreibung:	Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Introduction: changing practices and perception of the body -- A brief history of urns, urnfields and burials in the Urnfield culture -- Theoretical framework -- The Bronze age: setting the scene -- The changing Bronze Age body -introduction of case studies -- The treatment of the body: compatibility and divergence -- The construction of graves: coherence and variations -- After the burial: prolonged engagement with the body -- Conclusions: on the nature of change in burial practices -- Bibliography -- Index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 229 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009247429
DOI:	10.1017/9781009247429