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Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
- Title
- Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Nicola Laneri ; with contributions by Ellen F. Morris ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Chicago : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xviii, 317 p.: ill., maps, plans; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3
- Uniform Title
- University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3.
- Subject
- Note
- Proceedings from the 2nd annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminar held at the Oriental Institute , February 17-18, 2006.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- An archaeology of funerary rituals / Nicola Laneri -- Sacrifice for the state / E.F. Morris -- Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria / G.M. Schwartz -- Mortuary rituals, social relations, and identity in southeast Spain in the late third to early second millennia B.C. / Robert Chapman -- Combined efforts till death / Massimo Cultraro -- Remembering and forgetting in early bronze age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea plain, Jordan / M.S. Chesson -- Etruscan style of dying / Alessandro Naso -- The politics of loss / Adam T. Smith -- Sumerian funerary rituals in context / Dina Katz -- Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- Death of a household / Susan Pollock -- Achilles and the sallis wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford -- Ritualizing death in Republican Rome / John Pollini -- Burial treatment as transformations of bodily ideology / John Robb -- Mortuary practices for the third millennium : 1966-2000 / James A. Brown.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-534
- ISBN
- 1885923503
- 9781885923509
- LCCN
- 2007927320
- OCLC
- 156832396
- Title
- Performing death : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Nicola Laneri ; with contributions by Ellen F. Morris ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Chicago : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007.
- Series
- Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Laneri, Nicola.Morris, Ellen F.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-534