Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

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Staging Death

Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Edited by: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild and Michael John Boyd

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.

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Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Michael J. Boyd, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Staging Death: an Introduction Michael J. Boyd and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality
Funerary Ritual-Architectural Events in the Temple Tomb and the Royal Tomb at Knossos Maria Chountasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Fields of Action in Mycenaean Funerary Practices Michael J. Boyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
Politics of Death at Mitrou: Two Prepalatial Elite Tombs in a Landscape of Power Aleydis Van de Moortel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes
Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic period: Spatial Diversity in Practice Kalliope Sarri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The Practice of Funerary Destruction in the Southwest Peloponnese Kate Harrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
A Roof for the Dead: Tomb Design and the ‘Domestication of Death’ in Mycenaean Funerary Architecture Yannis Galanakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Placing Bodies, Embodying Places
Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis Anna Lagia, Ioanna Moutafi, Raphaël Orgeolet, Despoina Skorda and Julien Zurbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Mortuary Practices in the Middle Bronze Age at Kouphovouno: Vernacular Dimensions of the Mortuary Ritual Bill Cavanagh, Anna Lagia and Chris Mee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
‘Death Is Not the End’: Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Biographies and Memories of Place
A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical Significance: the Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete Giorgos Vavouranakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
From Performing Death to Venerating the Ancestors at Lebena Yerokambos, Crete Emily Miller Bonney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers’ Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power? Angélique Labrude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes
Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs During the Bronze Age Oliver Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Structuring Space, Performing Rituals, Creating Memories: Towards a Cognitive Map of Early Mycenaean Funerary Behaviour Nikolas Papadimitriou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Pollution and Purity in the Argolid and Corinthia During the Early Iron Age: the Burials Sam Farnham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Bios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395

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eBook published on:

December 19, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9783110480573

Hardcover published on:

December 19, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110475784

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

11

Main content:

398

Illustrations:

19

Coloured Illustrations:

19

Tables:

3

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110480573

eBook ISBN: 9783110480573

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110475784

Keywords for this book

Death; landscape; performance

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Advanced students, academic spcialists, professional practitioners and scholars in Aegean and Greek archaeology and history

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