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Author Nativ, Assaf

Title Prioritizing Death and Society : the Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant
Published London : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages)
Series Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Approaches to anthropological archaeology.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1 Introduction; 2 Binary oppositions, logical gaps and thick descriptions; Part II: Chalcolithic cemeteries; 3 Chalcolithic cemeteries: winks, twitches and faked twitches; 4 Isolated in the landscape: single-cave cemeteries; 5 Multiple components: multiple-cave cemeteries; 6 Dark, damp and deep: karstic-cave systems; 7 Funerary structures; 8 Exceptions, outliers and misfits; 9 Structured deposition and depositional structures
Part III: Contemporary cemeteries10 An archaeology of us; 11 The raw materials: from matt to lustre, from grey to colour; 12 Tombstone morphology: communal trajectories; 13 Tombstone elaboration: personal expressions; 14 Spatial patterns: between institutional policy and interpersonal spontaneity; 15 Intersecting discourses; Part IV: Conclusion; 16 Prioritizing death and society; 17 Epilogue; Appendix: Gazetteers of cemeteries; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index
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Subject Death -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Middle East
Cemeteries -- Middle East
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Middle East
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Cemeteries
Death -- Social aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Human remains (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Middle East -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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