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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 [and others].

Publication

Chicago : The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Laneri, Nicola.
• Morris, Ellen F.

Description

xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3

Uniform Title

University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminars ; no. 3.

Subject

• Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient

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.

ISBN

• 1885923503
• 9781885923509

LCCN

99949839281

OCLC

• ocn156832396
• 156832396
• SCSB-5651130

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries