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Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

Name: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783031039553
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Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

Autor: Estella Weiss-Krejci, Sebastian Becker, Philip Schwyzer

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In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well a...

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Autor

Estella Weiss-Krejci, Sebastian Becker, Philip Schwyzer

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2022

Pagini

317

EAN

9783031039553

Enbook ID

38874499

Editura

Springer International Publishing AG

Greutate

725

Dimensiuni

155 x 235 x 22

Descriere completă

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 historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forbears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. Although archaeologists and literary critics have been increasingly willing to borrow concepts and terminology from the other discipline, this book is one examples of a genuinely collaborative endeavor.This is an open access book.